Swanton, VT Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,100 ft 335 m850 ft 260 m720 ft 220 m470 ft 145 m220 ft 70 m97 ft 30 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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
Swanton sits at about 150 ft (45 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
150 ft 45 m
most residents: 110–390 ft
Lowest
97 ft 30 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,100 ft 335 m
on the southeast side
Average
270 ft 80 m
all land inside town boundaries
Swanton spans about 1,003 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 | 150 ft45 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the southeast side | 1,100 ft335 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the northwest side | 97 ft30 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Swanton | 140 ft45 m |
| Airport (FSO) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.8 mi northeast of the town boundaries | 228 ft69 m |
| Average of all land | 270 ft80 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
7.2 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Franklin County, Vermont, United States
- Population
- 6,854 2024 est.
- Land area
- 48.2 sq mi + 13.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 142 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.9181° N, 73.1243° 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 4
- 05455 05478 05483 05488
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- St. Albans430 ft
- Sheldon430 ft
- City of St. Albans410 ft
- Highgate Center310 ft
- Highgate280 ft
- Swanton150 ft
- Village of Swanton150 ft
- Highgate Springs130 ft
- Village of Alburgh120 ft
- Alburgh120 ft
- North Hero110 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Vermont324th highest of 331
- Towns in Franklin County17th highest of 19
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Mansfield4,395 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, −3 ft at 44.9107° N, 73.1171° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.