Orleans County, VT Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,860 ft 1,175 m3,020 ft 920 m2,600 ft 795 m1,770 ft 540 m930 ft 280 m510 ft 155 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
Orleans County averages about 1,340 ft (410 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 510 ft on the northwest side to 3,862 ft on Jay Peak.
Average elevation
1,340 ft 410 m
all land inside the county
Highest
3,862 ft 1,177 m
on Jay Peak
Lowest
510 ft 155 m
on the northwest side
Orleans County spans about 3,350 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 | 1,340 ft410 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Jay Peak (NGS survey height) | 3,862 ft1,177 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 510 ft155 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
31 mi west to east through Derby.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Vermont, United States
- Population
- 27,726 2024 est.
- Land area
- 694.5 sq mi + 27.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 40 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Canada 92%
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Essex County1,600 ft
- Caledonia County1,370 ft
- Orleans County1,340 ft
- Lamoille County1,300 ft
- Franklin County690 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Vermont6th highest of 14
- Counties in the United States968th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Jay Peak3,862 ft
- North Jay Peak3,410 ft
- Doll Peak3,370 ft
- Belvidere Mountain3,352 ft
- Bald Mountain3,327 ft
All 27 towns in Orleans County by typical elevation
- Westmore1,830 ft
- Morgan1,620 ft
- Glover1,470 ft
- Greensboro1,430 ft
- Holland1,410 ft
- Charleston1,370 ft
- Greensboro Bend1,300 ft
- Albany1,280 ft
- Jay1,240 ft
- Lowell1,220 ft
- Craftsbury1,190 ft
- Brownington1,180 ft
- Irasburg1,030 ft
- Derby1,030 ft
- Derby Line1,030 ft
- Derby Center1,010 ft
- Coventry1,000 ft
- Westfield1,000 ft
- Village of Barton950 ft
- Barton950 ft
- Town of Newport940 ft
- Village of Albany920 ft
- Newport Center790 ft
- Troy770 ft
- Orleans770 ft
- Newport750 ft
- North Troy600 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.