Bolton, VT Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,710 ft 1,130 m2,860 ft 870 m2,430 ft 740 m1,580 ft 485 m730 ft 225 m310 ft 95 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
Bolton sits at about 1,050 ft (320 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,050 ft 320 m
most residents: 350–2,140 ft
Lowest
310 ft 95 m
on the west side
Highest
3,710 ft 1,130 m
on Bolton Mountain
Average
1,610 ft 490 m
all land inside town boundaries
Bolton spans about 3,400 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 | 1,050 ft320 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on Bolton Mountain | 3,710 ft1,130 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the west side | 310 ft95 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Bolton | 350 ft110 m |
| Airport (BTV) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 12 mi northwest of the town boundaries | 335 ft102 m |
| Average of all land | 1,610 ft490 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
9.6 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Chittenden County, Vermont, United States
- Population
- 1,292 2024 est.
- Land area
- 41.8 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 31 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.3728° N, 72.8807° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Richelieu River → Canada
- Airport
- Patrick Leahy Burlington International (BTV) 335 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 05465 05477 05676
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Bolton Valley1,860 ft
- Duxbury1,130 ft
- Bolton1,050 ft
- Huntington900 ft
- Hanksville880 ft
- Underhill Center800 ft
- Jericho Center730 ft
- Huntington Center710 ft
- Waterbury700 ft
- Waterbury Center670 ft
- Richmond650 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Vermont129th highest of 331
- Towns in Chittenden County2nd highest of 26
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Mansfield4,395 ft
- Camels Hump4,079 ft
- Bolton Mountain3,710 ft
- Sterling Mountain3,700 ft
- Mount Hunger3,570 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.