Shrewsbury, VT Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,710 ft 1,130 m2,970 ft 905 m2,600 ft 795 m1,870 ft 570 m1,140 ft 345 m770 ft 235 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
Shrewsbury sits at about 1,630 ft (495 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,630 ft 495 m
most residents: 1,020–2,000 ft
Lowest
770 ft 235 m
on the west side
Highest
3,710 ft 1,130 m
on Shrewsbury Peak
Average
1,780 ft 540 m
all land inside town boundaries
Shrewsbury spans about 2,940 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 | 1,630 ft495 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on Shrewsbury Peak | 3,710 ft1,130 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the west side | 770 ft235 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Shrewsbury | 1,650 ft505 m |
| Airport (RUT) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.9 mi west of the town boundaries | 787 ft240 m |
| Average of all land | 1,780 ft540 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
7.1 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Rutland County, Vermont, United States
- Population
- 1,099 2024 est.
- Land area
- 50.1 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 22 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.5090° N, 72.8668° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Otter Creek → Richelieu River → Canada
- Airport
- Rutland/Southern Vermont Regional (RUT) 787 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 05738
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Mendon2,140 ft
- Plymouth1,860 ft
- Shrewsbury1,630 ft
- Mount Holly1,570 ft
- Tinmouth1,240 ft
- Ira1,150 ft
- Wallingford810 ft
- Clarendon810 ft
- Town of Rutland780 ft
- Rutland590 ft
- North Clarendon580 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Vermont29th highest of 331
- Towns in Rutland County4th highest of 34
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Killington Peak4,229 ft
- Ludlow Mountain3,340 ft
- Salt Ash Mountain3,280 ft
- Blue Ridge Mountain3,260 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.