South Shaftsbury, VT Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,340 ft 410 m1,170 ft 355 m1,080 ft 330 m920 ft 280 m750 ft 225 m660 ft 200 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
South Shaftsbury sits at about 750 ft (230 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
750 ft 230 m
most residents: 710–980 ft
Lowest
660 ft 200 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,340 ft 410 m
on the east edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
910 ft 280 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
South Shaftsbury spans about 680 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 | 750 ft230 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east edge, below higher ground just outside | 1,340 ft410 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 660 ft200 m |
| Airport (DDH) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.1 mi southwest of the CDP boundary | 827 ft252 m |
| Average of all land | 910 ft280 m |
| Nearest peak Mount Anthony, 4.8 mi south of the CDP boundary | 2,340 ft715 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.2 mi west to east through the middle of South Shaftsbury.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Bennington County, Vermont, United States
- Population
- 681 2020 Census
- Land area
- 2.2 sq mi
- Density
- 304 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.9436° N, 73.2113° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Hudson River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- William H Morse State (DDH) 827 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 05262
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Woodford2,140 ft
- Pownal Center980 ft
- Shaftsbury930 ft
- Arlington800 ft
- Old Bennington790 ft
- South Shaftsbury750 ft
- Bennington740 ft
- North Bennington610 ft
- Hoosick, NY530 ft
- White Creek, NY510 ft
- Hoosick Falls, NY470 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Vermont198th highest of 331
- Towns in Bennington County21st 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 CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- South Shaftsbury is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.