Northfield, VT Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,800 ft 855 m2,260 ft 690 m1,980 ft 605 m1,440 ft 435 m890 ft 270 m610 ft 185 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
Northfield sits at about 830 ft (255 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
830 ft 255 m
most residents: 730–1,680 ft
Lowest
610 ft 185 m
on the north side
Highest
2,800 ft 855 m
on the west side
Average
1,390 ft 425 m
all land inside town boundaries
Northfield spans about 2,190 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 | 830 ft255 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the west side | 2,800 ft855 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the north side | 610 ft185 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Northfield | 730 ft220 m |
| Airport (MPV) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.2 mi northeast of the town boundaries | 1,166 ft355 m |
| Average of all land | 1,390 ft425 m |
| Nearest peak Mount Ellen, 7.5 mi west of the town boundaries | 4,080 ft1,240 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
8.6 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Washington County, Vermont, United States
- Population
- 5,915 2024 est.
- Land area
- 44.6 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 133 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.1512° N, 72.6565° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Winooski River → Richelieu River → Canada
- Airport
- Edward F Knapp State (MPV) 1,166 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 05663 05664
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Roxbury1,440 ft
- Brookfield1,420 ft
- Graniteville1,340 ft
- Williamstown1,230 ft
- South Barre920 ft
- Waitsfield900 ft
- Berlin850 ft
- Northfield830 ft
- Moretown760 ft
- Barre710 ft
- Montpelier650 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Vermont177th highest of 331
- Towns in Washington County21st highest of 26
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Camels Hump4,079 ft
- Mount Ellen4,080 ft
- Bread Loaf Mountain3,810 ft
- Adams Mountain3,210 ft
- Paine Mountain2,406 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.