Fairlee, VT Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,770 ft 540 m1,420 ft 435 m1,250 ft 380 m900 ft 275 m560 ft 170 m380 ft 115 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
Fairlee sits at about 460 ft (140 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
460 ft 140 m
most residents: 430–1,270 ft
Lowest
380 ft 115 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,770 ft 540 m
on Bald Top
Average
900 ft 275 m
all land inside town boundaries
Fairlee spans about 1,390 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 | 460 ft140 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on Bald Top | 1,770 ft540 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the southwest side | 380 ft115 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Fairlee | 440 ft135 m |
| Average of all land | 900 ft275 m |
| Nearest peak Smarts Mountain, 7.4 mi southeast of the town boundaries | 3,230 ft985 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.5 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Orange County, Vermont, United States
- Population
- 1,033 2024 est.
- Land area
- 20.0 sq mi + 1.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 52 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.9076° N, 72.1434° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Connecticut River → Long Island Sound
- ZIP codes 2
- 05033 05045
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Vershire1,640 ft
- Corinth1,150 ft
- Orford, NH960 ft
- West Fairlee940 ft
- Lyme, NH850 ft
- Wentworth, NH830 ft
- Thetford740 ft
- Piermont, NH700 ft
- Bradford650 ft
- Haverhill, NH590 ft
- Fairlee460 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Vermont271st highest of 331
- Towns in Orange Countylowest of 19
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Moosilauke4,797 ft
- Carr Mountain3,450 ft
- Smarts Mountain3,230 ft
- Piermont Mountain2,710 ft
- North Peak2,300 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.