Cavendish, VT Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,090 ft 635 m1,720 ft 525 m1,540 ft 470 m1,170 ft 355 m800 ft 245 m620 ft 190 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
Cavendish sits at about 1,010 ft (305 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,010 ft 305 m
most residents: 900–1,410 ft
Lowest
620 ft 190 m
on the east side
Highest
2,090 ft 635 m
on Hawks Mountain
Average
1,260 ft 385 m
all land inside town boundaries
Cavendish spans about 1,470 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 | 1,010 ft305 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on Hawks Mountain | 2,090 ft635 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the east side | 620 ft190 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Cavendish | 900 ft275 m |
| Airport (VSF) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.8 mi southeast of the town boundaries | 578 ft176 m |
| Average of all land | 1,260 ft385 m |
| Nearest peak Mount Ascutney, 3.8 mi northeast of the town boundaries | 3,140 ft955 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
7.2 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Windsor County, Vermont, United States
- Population
- 1,396 2024 est.
- Land area
- 39.4 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 35 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.3820° N, 72.6081° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Connecticut River → Long Island Sound
- Airport
- Hartness State (Springfield) (VSF) 578 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 05142 05153
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Andover1,750 ft
- Reading1,450 ft
- Ludlow1,160 ft
- Baltimore1,110 ft
- Village of Ludlow1,020 ft
- Cavendish1,010 ft
- Proctorsville940 ft
- Chester840 ft
- Weathersfield770 ft
- Springfield580 ft
- North Springfield530 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Vermont137th highest of 331
- Towns in Windsor County16th highest of 37
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Ludlow Mountain3,340 ft
- Salt Ash Mountain3,280 ft
- Mount Ascutney3,140 ft
- Glebe Mountain2,960 ft
- Mount Moses2,600 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. All public domain.