Brighton, VT Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,790 ft 850 m2,380 ft 725 m2,180 ft 665 m1,770 ft 540 m1,360 ft 415 m1,150 ft 350 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
Brighton sits at about 1,230 ft (375 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,230 ft 375 m
most residents: 1,180–1,720 ft
Lowest
1,150 ft 350 m
on the west side
Highest
2,790 ft 850 m
on Bluff Mountain
Average
1,550 ft 475 m
all land inside town boundaries
Brighton spans about 1,640 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 | 1,230 ft375 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on Bluff Mountain | 2,790 ft850 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the west side | 1,150 ft350 m |
| Average of all land | 1,550 ft475 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
9.3 mi south to north through the middle of Brighton.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Essex County, Vermont, United States
- Population
- 1,255 2024 est.
- Land area
- 52.9 sq mi + 1.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 24 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.8095° N, 71.8824° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Canada
- ZIP codes 1
- 05846
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Westmore1,830 ft
- Newark1,630 ft
- Morgan1,620 ft
- Holland1,410 ft
- Charleston1,370 ft
- Bloomfield1,320 ft
- Brighton1,230 ft
- Island Pond1,230 ft
- East Haven1,230 ft
- Brownington1,180 ft
- West Burke920 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Vermont90th highest of 331
- Towns in Essex County8th highest of 16
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- East Mountain3,438 ft
- Gore Mountain3,330 ft
- Bald Mountain3,327 ft
- Burke Mountain3,265 ft
- Mount Hor2,640 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.