Essex, VT Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,310 ft 400 m1,030 ft 315 m890 ft 270 m610 ft 185 m330 ft 100 m190 ft 55 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
Essex sits at about 480 ft (145 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
480 ft 145 m
most residents: 340–630 ft
Lowest
190 ft 55 m
on the west side
Highest
1,310 ft 400 m
on the northeast side
Average
560 ft 170 m
all land inside town boundaries
Essex spans about 1,120 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 | 480 ft145 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the northeast side | 1,310 ft400 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the west side | 190 ft55 m |
| Airport (BTV) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.1 mi southwest of the town boundaries | 335 ft102 m |
| Average of all land | 560 ft170 m |
| Nearest peak Mount Mansfield, 7.8 mi east of the town boundaries (NGS survey) | 4,395 ft1,340 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
7.0 mi west to east through the middle of Essex.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Chittenden County, Vermont, United States
- Population
- 11,497 2024 est.
- Land area
- 34.3 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 335 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.5077° N, 73.0708° 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 3
- 05446 05452 05465
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Underhill1,020 ft
- Jericho Center730 ft
- Underhill Flats690 ft
- Jericho670 ft
- Essex480 ft
- Williston440 ft
- Essex Junction340 ft
- South Burlington310 ft
- Winooski230 ft
- Burlington220 ft
- Colchester190 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Vermont267th highest of 331
- Towns in Chittenden County15th highest of 26
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Mansfield4,395 ft
- Camels Hump4,079 ft
- Bolton Mountain3,710 ft
- Sterling Mountain3,700 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).
- 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.