Castleton, VT Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,970 ft 600 m1,560 ft 475 m1,360 ft 415 m950 ft 290 m540 ft 165 m330 ft 100 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
Castleton sits at about 450 ft (140 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
450 ft 140 m
most residents: 410–690 ft
Lowest
330 ft 100 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,970 ft 600 m
on Grandpa Knob
Average
700 ft 215 m
all land inside town boundaries
Castleton 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 | 450 ft140 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on Grandpa Knob | 1,970 ft600 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the southwest side | 330 ft100 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Castleton | 440 ft135 m |
| Airport (RUT) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 9.2 mi southeast of the town boundaries | 787 ft240 m |
| Average of all land | 700 ft215 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.4 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Rutland County, Vermont, United States
- Population
- 4,455 2024 est.
- Land area
- 38.9 sq mi + 3.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 114 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.6106° N, 73.1798° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Richelieu River → Canada
- Airport
- Rutland/Southern Vermont Regional (RUT) 787 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 05732 05735 05743
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Ira1,150 ft
- Hubbardton680 ft
- Hampton, NY680 ft
- Proctor540 ft
- West Rutland540 ft
- East Poultney490 ft
- Poultney460 ft
- Castleton450 ft
- Castleton Four Corners440 ft
- Village of Poultney420 ft
- Fair Haven380 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Vermont272nd highest of 331
- Towns in Rutland County29th highest of 34
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Farr Peak3,510 ft
- Blue Ridge Mountain3,260 ft
- Tinmouth Mountain2,820 ft
- Herrick Mountain2,710 ft
- Vanderburg Mountain1,920 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 320 ft at 43.5910° N, 73.2254° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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. All public domain.