Sheldon, VT Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,270 ft 390 m1,000 ft 305 m870 ft 265 m610 ft 185 m340 ft 105 m210 ft 65 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
Sheldon sits at about 430 ft (130 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
430 ft 130 m
most residents: 320–610 ft
Lowest
210 ft 65 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,270 ft 385 m
on the east side
Average
510 ft 155 m
all land inside town boundaries
Sheldon spans about 1,060 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 | 430 ft130 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the east side | 1,270 ft385 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the northwest side | 210 ft65 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Sheldon | 340 ft105 m |
| Airport (FSO) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.8 mi northwest of the town boundaries | 228 ft69 m |
| Average of all land | 510 ft155 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
8.3 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Franklin County, Vermont, United States
- Population
- 2,184 2024 est.
- Land area
- 38.6 sq mi + 0.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 57 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.8817° N, 72.9429° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- St. Lawrence Valley
- Drains to
- Richelieu River → Canada
- Airport
- Franklin County State (FSO) 228 ft
- ZIP codes 5
- 05450 05457 05478 05483 05485
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Fairfield670 ft
- Franklin530 ft
- Enosburgh460 ft
- St. Albans430 ft
- Sheldon430 ft
- Enosburg Falls420 ft
- City of St. Albans410 ft
- Highgate Center310 ft
- Highgate280 ft
- Swanton150 ft
- Village of Swanton150 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Vermont281st highest of 331
- Towns in Franklin County11th highest of 19
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Jay Peak3,862 ft
- Sterling Mountain3,700 ft
- Belvidere Mountain3,352 ft
- Laraway Mountain2,796 ft
- Gilson Mountain1,951 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.