Jay, VT Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,860 ft 1,175 m3,090 ft 940 m2,710 ft 825 m1,940 ft 590 m1,170 ft 355 m780 ft 240 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
Jay sits at about 1,240 ft (380 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,240 ft 380 m
most residents: 960–2,180 ft
Lowest
780 ft 240 m
on the southeast side
Highest
3,862 ft 1,177 m
on Jay Peak
Average
1,600 ft 490 m
all land inside town boundaries
Jay spans about 3,080 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 | 1,240 ft380 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on Jay Peak | 3,862 ft1,177 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the southeast side | 780 ft240 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Jay | 920 ft280 m |
| Average of all land | 1,600 ft490 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Orleans County, Vermont, United States
- Population
- 539 2024 est.
- Land area
- 33.9 sq mi
- Density
- 16 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.9475° N, 72.4371° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Missisquoi River → Richelieu River → Canada
- ZIP codes 1
- 05859
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Jay1,240 ft
- Lowell1,220 ft
- Montgomery1,070 ft
- Coventry1,000 ft
- Westfield1,000 ft
- Town of Newport940 ft
- Newport Center790 ft
- Troy770 ft
- Newport750 ft
- North Troy600 ft
- Richford490 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Vermont89th highest of 331
- Towns in Orleans County9th highest of 27
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Jay Peak3,862 ft
- Belvidere Mountain3,352 ft
- Laraway Mountain2,796 ft
- Mount Hor2,640 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.