Colchester, VT Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
890 ft 270 m690 ft 210 m590 ft 180 m390 ft 120 m190 ft 55 m88 ft 27 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
Colchester sits at about 190 ft (55 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
190 ft 55 m
most residents: 100–320 ft
Lowest
88 ft 27 m
on the southwest side
Highest
890 ft 270 m
on the northeast side
Average
220 ft 70 m
all land inside town boundaries
Colchester spans about 802 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 | 190 ft55 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the northeast side | 890 ft270 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the southwest side | 88 ft27 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Colchester | 270 ft85 m |
| Airport (BTV) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.2 mi south of the town boundaries | 335 ft102 m |
| Average of all land | 220 ft70 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
11 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Chittenden County, Vermont, United States
- Population
- 17,807 2024 est.
- Land area
- 36.3 sq mi + 24.0 sq mi water
- Density
- 490 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.5439° N, 73.1479° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- St. Lawrence Valley
- Drains to
- Richelieu River → Canada
- Airport
- Patrick Leahy Burlington International (BTV) 335 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 05439 05446
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Underhill Flats690 ft
- Westford680 ft
- Jericho670 ft
- Essex480 ft
- Williston440 ft
- Essex Junction340 ft
- Milton330 ft
- South Burlington310 ft
- Winooski230 ft
- Burlington220 ft
- Colchester190 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Vermont319th highest of 331
- Towns in Chittenden Countylowest of 26
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Mansfield4,395 ft
- Bolton Mountain3,710 ft
- Sterling Mountain3,700 ft
- Old Rang Mountain2,280 ft
- Gilson Mountain1,951 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, 46 ft at 44.5112° N, 73.1937° 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.