Berkshire, VT Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,320 ft 400 m1,090 ft 330 m970 ft 295 m740 ft 225 m510 ft 155 m390 ft 120 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 ft
USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau
How to use this mapviews, tools and data
- Elevation
- Ground colored by height from green (lowest) to white (highest), with contour lines every 40–500 ft (USGS data).
- Satellite
- A 2016 satellite photo at 33 ft (10 m) detail; contours off.
- 3D
- Tilt and turn the terrain; hills are raised 1.5×, or set ×1 for true height.
- Click or tap anywhere
- The exact elevation of that spot in ft and m.
- Measure
- Pick two points for the climb, descent and grade along a straight line.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Berkshire sits at about 640 ft (195 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
640 ft 195 m
most residents: 420–850 ft
Lowest
390 ft 120 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,320 ft 400 m
on Ayers Hill
Average
650 ft 200 m
all land inside town boundaries
Berkshire spans about 930 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where its people live, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 640 ft195 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on Ayers Hill | 1,320 ft400 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the northwest side | 390 ft120 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Berkshire | 720 ft220 m |
| Average of all land | 650 ft200 m |
| Nearest peak Jay Peak, 7.4 mi east of the town boundaries (NGS survey) | 3,862 ft1,177 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.7 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Franklin County, Vermont, United States
- Population
- 1,598 2024 est.
- Land area
- 41.7 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 38 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.9717° N, 72.7754° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- St. Lawrence Valley
- Drains to
- Pike River → Richelieu River → Canada
- ZIP codes 3
- 05447 05450 05476
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Belvidere1,380 ft
- Montgomery1,070 ft
- Bakersfield750 ft
- Berkshire640 ft
- Franklin530 ft
- Richford490 ft
- Enosburgh460 ft
- Sheldon430 ft
- Enosburg Falls420 ft
- Highgate Center310 ft
- Highgate280 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Vermont232nd highest of 331
- Towns in Franklin County5th highest of 19
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Jay Peak3,862 ft
- Sterling Mountain3,700 ft
- Belvidere Mountain3,352 ft
- Laraway Mountain2,796 ft
- Gilson Mountain1,951 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the town boundaries, at its USGS 3DEP height, weighted by the people who live there. Half of residents live higher, half lower.
- Lowest, highest, average: USGS 3DEP bare-earth heights on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid, land only, inside the Census town boundaries (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Nearby Places: nearby towns and rankings use each town's typical elevation, so every town is compared like for like. Rankings count every city, town, township and census-designated place, including places inside a town. Peaks and hills: the nearest summits with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence within 62 mi (100 km), then federal (GNIS) summits within 16 mi (25 km) when there are fewer than 5; each is the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a usable survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it (shown as published).
- Rounding: computed heights are rounded to 10 ft (5 m), or to 1 ft (1 m) under 100 ft; 3DEP is good to about a meter, not a foot. Published figures (FAA airport elevation, NGS survey heights) are shown as their publisher gives them.
- Datum: North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88). NGS plans to replace NAVD 88 with a new datum (NAPGD2022); heights will then shift slightly.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.