Rochester, VT Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,350 ft 1,020 m2,700 ft 820 m2,370 ft 725 m1,720 ft 525 m1,070 ft 325 m740 ft 225 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
Rochester sits at about 1,380 ft (420 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,380 ft 420 m
most residents: 870–1,990 ft
Lowest
740 ft 225 m
on the south side
Highest
3,350 ft 1,020 m
on Gillespie Peak
Average
1,690 ft 515 m
all land inside town boundaries
Rochester spans about 2,610 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 | 1,380 ft420 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on Gillespie Peak | 3,350 ft1,020 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the south side | 740 ft225 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Rochester | 870 ft265 m |
| Average of all land | 1,690 ft515 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
12 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Windsor County, Vermont, United States
- Population
- 1,087 2024 est.
- Land area
- 56.8 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 19 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.8745° N, 72.8079° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- White River → Connecticut River → Long Island Sound
- ZIP codes 1
- 05767
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Goshen1,610 ft
- Chittenden1,570 ft
- Granville1,530 ft
- Stockbridge1,490 ft
- Ripton1,450 ft
- Rochester1,380 ft
- Pittsfield1,340 ft
- Braintree1,190 ft
- Hancock1,180 ft
- Randolph900 ft
- Bethel850 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Vermont61st highest of 331
- Towns in Windsor County8th highest of 37
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Bread Loaf Mountain3,810 ft
- Farr Peak3,510 ft
- Cape Lookoff Mountain3,340 ft
- Adams Mountain3,210 ft
- Bull Hill2,830 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. All public domain.