Plainfield, VT Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,030 ft 925 m2,440 ft 745 m2,140 ft 655 m1,550 ft 475 m960 ft 295 m670 ft 205 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Plainfield sits at about 1,110 ft (340 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,110 ft 340 m
most residents: 750–1,500 ft
Lowest
670 ft 205 m
on the west side
Highest
3,030 ft 925 m
on Spruce Mountain
Average
1,450 ft 445 m
all land inside town boundaries
Plainfield spans about 2,360 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 | 1,110 ft340 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on Spruce Mountain | 3,030 ft925 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the west side | 670 ft205 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Plainfield | 780 ft240 m |
| Airport (MPV) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.6 mi southwest of the town boundaries | 1,166 ft355 m |
| Average of all land | 1,450 ft445 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
4.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Washington County, Vermont, United States
- Population
- 1,243 2024 est.
- Land area
- 21.0 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 59 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.2781° N, 72.4265° 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
- 05641 05667
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Websterville1,350 ft
- Calais1,170 ft
- East Barre1,140 ft
- Marshfield1,110 ft
- Plainfield1,110 ft
- Town of Barre1,080 ft
- East Montpelier940 ft
- South Barre920 ft
- Village of Marshfield850 ft
- Barre710 ft
- Montpelier650 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Vermont115th highest of 331
- Towns in Washington County13th highest of 26
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Hunger3,570 ft
- Signal Mountain3,352 ft
- Adams Mountain3,210 ft
- Paine Mountain2,406 ft
- Signal Mountain2,309 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.