Reading, VT Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,600 ft 795 m2,120 ft 645 m1,880 ft 575 m1,400 ft 425 m920 ft 280 m680 ft 205 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
Reading sits at about 1,450 ft (445 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,450 ft 445 m
most residents: 800–1,840 ft
Lowest
680 ft 205 m
on the southeast side
Highest
2,600 ft 795 m
on Mount Moses
Average
1,630 ft 495 m
all land inside town boundaries
Reading spans about 1,920 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 | 1,450 ft445 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on Mount Moses | 2,600 ft795 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the southeast side | 680 ft205 m |
| Average of all land | 1,630 ft495 m |
| Nearest peak Killington Peak, 9.3 mi northwest of the town boundaries (NGS survey) | 4,229 ft1,289 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.4 mi west to east through the middle of Reading.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Windsor County, Vermont, United States
- Population
- 684 2024 est.
- Land area
- 41.1 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 17 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.4788° N, 72.5750° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Connecticut River → Long Island Sound
- ZIP codes 2
- 05062 05153
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Plymouth1,860 ft
- Bridgewater1,550 ft
- Reading1,450 ft
- West Windsor1,320 ft
- South Woodstock1,270 ft
- Ludlow1,160 ft
- Baltimore1,110 ft
- Village of Ludlow1,020 ft
- Cavendish1,010 ft
- Proctorsville940 ft
- Weathersfield770 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Vermont51st highest of 331
- Towns in Windsor County7th highest of 37
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Ludlow Mountain3,340 ft
- Salt Ash Mountain3,280 ft
- Mount Ascutney3,140 ft
- Bull Hill2,830 ft
- Mount Moses2,600 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.