Richmond, VT Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,660 ft 505 m1,310 ft 400 m1,140 ft 350 m800 ft 245 m460 ft 140 m290 ft 85 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
Richmond sits at about 650 ft (200 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
650 ft 200 m
most residents: 310–1,110 ft
Lowest
290 ft 85 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,660 ft 505 m
at the foot of the Green Mountains
Average
740 ft 225 m
all land inside town boundaries
Richmond spans about 1,370 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 | 650 ft200 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, at the foot of the Green Mountains | 1,660 ft505 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the northwest side | 290 ft85 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Richmond | 350 ft105 m |
| Airport (BTV) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.0 mi northwest of the town boundaries | 335 ft102 m |
| Average of all land | 740 ft225 m |
| Nearest peak Camels Hump, 3.7 mi southeast of the town boundaries (NGS survey) | 4,079 ft1,243 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
5.4 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Chittenden County, Vermont, United States
- Population
- 4,157 2024 est.
- Land area
- 32.4 sq mi + 0.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 128 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.4053° N, 72.9929° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- St. Lawrence Valley
- Drains to
- Richelieu River → Canada
- Airport
- Patrick Leahy Burlington International (BTV) 335 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 05477
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Bolton Valley1,860 ft
- Bolton1,050 ft
- Huntington900 ft
- Jericho Center730 ft
- Huntington Center710 ft
- Hinesburg710 ft
- Jericho670 ft
- Richmond650 ft
- St. George520 ft
- Essex480 ft
- Williston440 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Vermont230th highest of 331
- Towns in Chittenden County13th highest of 26
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Mansfield4,395 ft
- Camels Hump4,079 ft
- Mount Ellen4,080 ft
- Bolton Mountain3,710 ft
- Sterling Mountain3,700 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.