Shaftsbury, VT Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,400 ft 730 m1,930 ft 585 m1,690 ft 515 m1,210 ft 370 m740 ft 225 m500 ft 155 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
Shaftsbury sits at about 930 ft (285 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
930 ft 285 m
most residents: 700–1,450 ft
Lowest
500 ft 155 m
on the southwest side
Highest
2,400 ft 730 m
on West Mountain
Average
1,140 ft 350 m
all land inside town boundaries
Shaftsbury spans about 1,900 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 | 930 ft285 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on West Mountain | 2,400 ft730 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the southwest side | 500 ft155 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Shaftsbury | 920 ft280 m |
| Airport (DDH) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.9 mi south of the town boundaries | 827 ft252 m |
| Average of all land | 1,140 ft350 m |
| Nearest peak Glastenbury Mountain, 3.6 mi east of the town boundaries | 3,750 ft1,145 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.5 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Bennington County, Vermont, United States
- Population
- 3,593 2024 est.
- Land area
- 43.0 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 84 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.0087° N, 73.1912° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Batten Kill → Hudson River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- William H Morse State (DDH) 827 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 05201 05257 05262
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Woodford2,140 ft
- Sandgate1,410 ft
- Shaftsbury930 ft
- Sunderland870 ft
- Arlington800 ft
- Old Bennington790 ft
- South Shaftsbury750 ft
- Bennington740 ft
- North Bennington610 ft
- White Creek, NY510 ft
- Village of Cambridge, NY500 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Vermont154th highest of 331
- Towns in Bennington County14th highest of 24
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Equinox Mountain3,830 ft
- Glastenbury Mountain3,750 ft
- Mount Snow3,590 ft
- Grass Mountain3,100 ft
- Mount Anthony2,340 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. All public domain.