Orwell, VT Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,000 ft 305 m780 ft 235 m660 ft 200 m440 ft 135 m210 ft 65 m97 ft 30 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
Orwell sits at about 390 ft (120 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
390 ft 120 m
most residents: 210–650 ft
Lowest
97 ft 30 m
on the west side
Highest
1,000 ft 305 m
on the southeast side
Average
370 ft 115 m
all land inside town boundaries
Orwell spans about 903 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 | 390 ft120 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the southeast side | 1,000 ft305 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the west side | 97 ft30 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Orwell | 380 ft115 m |
| Airport (4B6) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.1 mi northwest of the town boundaries | 274 ft84 m |
| Average of all land | 370 ft115 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.4 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Addison County, Vermont, United States
- Population
- 1,255 2024 est.
- Land area
- 47.2 sq mi + 2.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 27 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.8040° N, 73.2979° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- St. Lawrence Valley
- Drains to
- Richelieu River → Canada
- Airport
- Ticonderoga Municipal (4B6) 274 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 05733 05760 05770 05778
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Hubbardton680 ft
- Leicester590 ft
- Sudbury530 ft
- Brandon490 ft
- Putnam, NY440 ft
- Orwell390 ft
- Benson380 ft
- Whiting360 ft
- Dresden, NY350 ft
- Shoreham320 ft
- Ticonderoga, NY280 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Vermont294th highest of 331
- Towns in Addison County16th highest of 25
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Farr Peak3,510 ft
- Cape Lookoff Mountain3,340 ft
- Black Mountain2,650 ft
- Pharaoh Mountain2,550 ft
- Fivemile Mountain2,240 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. All public domain.