St. Johnsbury, VT Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,610 ft 490 m1,340 ft 410 m1,200 ft 365 m930 ft 285 m660 ft 200 m520 ft 160 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
St. Johnsbury sits at about 690 ft (210 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
690 ft 210 m
most residents: 610–1,060 ft
Lowest
520 ft 160 m
on the south side
Highest
1,610 ft 490 m
on the north side
Average
960 ft 290 m
all land inside town boundaries
St. Johnsbury spans about 1,090 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 | 690 ft210 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the north side | 1,610 ft490 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the south side | 520 ft160 m |
| Town center USGS map point for St. Johnsbury | 590 ft180 m |
| Average of all land | 960 ft290 m |
| Nearest peak Wheelock Mountain, 5.0 mi northwest of the town boundaries (NGS survey) | 2,783 ft848 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.8 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Caledonia County, Vermont, United States
- Population
- 7,385 2024 est.
- Land area
- 36.5 sq mi + 0.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 203 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.4192° N, 72.0151° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Connecticut River → Long Island Sound
- ZIP codes 3
- 05819 05824 05851
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Kirby1,720 ft
- Victory1,500 ft
- Danville1,360 ft
- Peacham1,330 ft
- Waterford1,140 ft
- Concord1,070 ft
- Barnet910 ft
- Lyndon880 ft
- Lyndonville740 ft
- Lyndon Center730 ft
- St. Johnsbury690 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Vermont217th highest of 331
- Towns in Caledonia Countylowest of 21
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Burke Mountain3,265 ft
- Wheelock Mountain2,783 ft
- Miles Mountain2,680 ft
- Mount Hor2,640 ft
- Signal Mountain2,309 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.