Thetford, VT Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,810 ft 550 m1,460 ft 445 m1,280 ft 390 m920 ft 280 m560 ft 170 m380 ft 115 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
Thetford sits at about 740 ft (225 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
740 ft 225 m
most residents: 480–1,120 ft
Lowest
380 ft 115 m
on the east side
Highest
1,810 ft 550 m
on the north edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
870 ft 265 m
all land inside town boundaries
Thetford spans about 1,430 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 | 740 ft225 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the north edge, below higher ground just outside | 1,810 ft550 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the east side | 380 ft115 m |
| Airport (LEB) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 11 mi south of the town boundaries | 603 ft184 m |
| Average of all land | 870 ft265 m |
| Nearest peak Smarts Mountain, 7.2 mi east of the town boundaries | 3,230 ft985 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.9 mi west to east through the middle of Thetford.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Orange County, Vermont, United States
- Population
- 2,848 2024 est.
- Land area
- 43.6 sq mi + 0.8 sq mi water
- Density
- 65 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.8367° N, 72.2495° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Connecticut River → Long Island Sound
- Airport
- Lebanon Municipal (LEB) 603 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 05043 05045 05058 05075
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Vershire1,640 ft
- Strafford1,410 ft
- Sharon1,180 ft
- Orford, NH960 ft
- West Fairlee940 ft
- Lyme, NH850 ft
- Norwich770 ft
- Thetford740 ft
- Hanover, NH530 ft
- Wilder510 ft
- Fairlee460 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Vermont203rd highest of 331
- Towns in Orange County15th highest of 19
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Carr Mountain3,450 ft
- Smarts Mountain3,230 ft
- Mount Cardigan3,060 ft
- Piermont Mountain2,710 ft
- North Peak2,300 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. All public domain.