Orange County, VT Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,150 ft 960 m2,460 ft 750 m2,110 ft 645 m1,420 ft 435 m730 ft 220 m380 ft 115 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Orange County averages about 1,290 ft (395 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 380 ft on the east side to 3,150 ft on Butterfield Mountain.
Average elevation
1,290 ft 395 m
all land inside the county
Highest
3,150 ft 960 m
on Butterfield Mountain
Lowest
380 ft 115 m
on the east side
Orange County spans about 2,770 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 1,290 ft395 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Butterfield Mountain (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 3,150 ft960 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the east side | 380 ft115 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
33 mi west to east through Randolph.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Vermont, United States
- Population
- 30,050 2024 est.
- Land area
- 687.0 sq mi + 4.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 44 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Long Island Sound 96%
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Grafton County, NH1,510 ft
- Caledonia County1,370 ft
- Washington County1,360 ft
- Orange County1,290 ft
- Windsor County1,290 ft
- Addison County880 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Vermont8th highest of 14
- Counties in the United States1,016th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Butterfield Mountain3,150 ft
- Knox Mountain3,060 ft
- Braintree Mountain3,010 ft
- Michigan Hill2,410 ft
- Colton Hill2,387 ft
All 19 towns in Orange County by typical elevation
- Washington1,660 ft
- Vershire1,640 ft
- Orange1,540 ft
- Brookfield1,420 ft
- Strafford1,410 ft
- Chelsea1,390 ft
- Topsham1,370 ft
- Williamstown1,230 ft
- Braintree1,190 ft
- Tunbridge1,160 ft
- Corinth1,150 ft
- West Fairlee940 ft
- Randolph900 ft
- Newbury780 ft
- Thetford740 ft
- Bradford650 ft
- Wells River550 ft
- Village of Newbury470 ft
- Fairlee460 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.