Chester, VT Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,300 ft 700 m1,850 ft 565 m1,630 ft 495 m1,180 ft 360 m730 ft 220 m500 ft 155 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
Chester sits at about 840 ft (255 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
840 ft 255 m
most residents: 590–1,310 ft
Lowest
500 ft 155 m
on the southeast side
Highest
2,300 ft 700 m
on Steadman Hill
Average
1,100 ft 335 m
all land inside town boundaries
Chester spans about 1,800 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 | 840 ft255 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on Steadman Hill | 2,300 ft700 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the southeast side | 500 ft155 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Chester | 610 ft185 m |
| Airport (VSF) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.4 mi northeast of the town boundaries | 578 ft176 m |
| Average of all land | 1,100 ft335 m |
| Nearest peak Ludlow Mountain, 5.1 mi northwest of the town boundaries | 3,340 ft1,015 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.8 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Windsor County, Vermont, United States
- Population
- 2,993 2024 est.
- Land area
- 55.7 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 54 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.2629° N, 72.5951° 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 1
- 05143
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Windham1,810 ft
- Andover1,750 ft
- Baltimore1,110 ft
- Cavendish1,010 ft
- Grafton990 ft
- Proctorsville940 ft
- Chester840 ft
- Springfield580 ft
- North Springfield530 ft
- Charlestown, NH450 ft
- Rockingham440 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Vermont175th highest of 331
- Towns in Windsor County21st 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.