Pownal Center, VT Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,470 ft 450 m1,290 ft 395 m1,200 ft 365 m1,020 ft 310 m830 ft 255 m740 ft 225 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Pownal Center sits at about 980 ft (300 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
980 ft 300 m
most residents: 860–1,180 ft
Lowest
740 ft 225 m
on the west side
Highest
1,470 ft 450 m
on the southeast edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
1,040 ft 315 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Pownal Center spans about 730 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 | 980 ft300 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast edge, below higher ground just outside | 1,470 ft450 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 740 ft225 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Pownal Center | 970 ft295 m |
| Airport (DDH) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.7 mi north of the CDP boundary | 827 ft252 m |
| Average of all land | 1,040 ft315 m |
| Nearest peak Berlin Mountain, 7.2 mi southwest of the CDP boundary | 2,800 ft855 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.4 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Bennington County, Vermont, United States
- Population
- 437 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.6 sq mi
- Density
- 281 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.7965° N, 73.2232° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Hudson River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- William H Morse State (DDH) 827 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 05261
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Stamford1,520 ft
- Petersburgh, NY1,100 ft
- Clarksburg, MA1,080 ft
- Pownal990 ft
- Pownal Center980 ft
- Old Bennington790 ft
- North Adams, MA790 ft
- Bennington740 ft
- Williamstown, MA690 ft
- North Pownal600 ft
- Hoosick, NY530 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Vermont143rd highest of 331
- Towns in Bennington County13th highest of 24
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Glastenbury Mountain3,750 ft
- Mount Snow3,590 ft
- Grass Mountain3,100 ft
- Berlin Mountain2,800 ft
- Mount Anthony2,340 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Pownal Center is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.