North Pownal, VT Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,140 ft 345 m980 ft 300 m900 ft 275 m740 ft 225 m570 ft 175 m490 ft 150 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
North Pownal sits at about 600 ft (180 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
600 ft 180 m
most residents: 500–880 ft
Lowest
490 ft 150 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,140 ft 345 m
on the northeast edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
670 ft 205 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
North Pownal spans about 650 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 | 600 ft180 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast edge, below higher ground just outside | 1,140 ft345 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 490 ft150 m |
| Town center USGS map point for North Pownal | 520 ft160 m |
| Airport (DDH) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.8 mi north of the CDP boundary | 827 ft252 m |
| Average of all land | 670 ft205 m |
| Nearest peak Mount Anthony, 4.1 mi north of the CDP boundary | 2,340 ft715 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Bennington County, Vermont, United States
- Population
- 303 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.2 sq mi
- Density
- 255 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.7976° N, 73.2646° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Hoosic River → Hudson River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- William H Morse State (DDH) 827 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 05260
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Berlin, NY1,270 ft
- Petersburgh, NY1,100 ft
- Pownal990 ft
- Pownal Center980 ft
- Old Bennington790 ft
- Bennington740 ft
- Williamstown, MA690 ft
- North Bennington610 ft
- North Pownal600 ft
- Hoosick, NY530 ft
- Hoosick Falls, NY470 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Vermont236th highest of 331
- Towns in Bennington Countylowest of 24
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Glastenbury Mountain3,750 ft
- Mount Snow3,590 ft
- Grass Mountain3,100 ft
- Berlin Mountain2,800 ft
- Mount Anthony2,340 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- North Pownal is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.