Washington County, VT Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
4,080 ft 1,240 m3,140 ft 955 m2,670 ft 815 m1,730 ft 530 m800 ft 245 m330 ft 100 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Washington County averages about 1,360 ft (415 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 330 ft on the northwest side to 4,080 ft on Mount Ellen.
Average elevation
1,360 ft 415 m
all land inside the county
Highest
4,080 ft 1,240 m
on Mount Ellen
Lowest
330 ft 100 m
on the northwest side
Washington County spans about 3,750 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 1,360 ft415 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Mount Ellen (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 4,080 ft1,240 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 330 ft100 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
25 mi west to east through Barre.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Vermont, United States
- Population
- 59,844 2024 est.
- Land area
- 687.1 sq mi + 8.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 87 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Canada
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Caledonia County1,370 ft
- Washington County1,360 ft
- Lamoille County1,300 ft
- Orange County1,290 ft
- Addison County880 ft
- Chittenden County760 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Vermont5th highest of 14
- Counties in the United States948th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Camels Hump4,079 ft
- Mount Ellen4,080 ft
- Mount Ethan Allen3,670 ft
- Mount Hunger3,570 ft
- Paine Mountain2,406 ft
All 26 towns in Washington County by typical elevation
- Fayston1,630 ft
- Warren1,630 ft
- Cabot1,480 ft
- Roxbury1,440 ft
- Websterville1,350 ft
- Graniteville1,340 ft
- Woodbury1,320 ft
- Calais1,170 ft
- Worcester1,140 ft
- East Barre1,140 ft
- Duxbury1,130 ft
- Marshfield1,110 ft
- Plainfield1,110 ft
- Town of Barre1,080 ft
- Middlesex1,060 ft
- East Montpelier940 ft
- South Barre920 ft
- Waitsfield900 ft
- Berlin850 ft
- Village of Marshfield850 ft
- Northfield830 ft
- Moretown760 ft
- Barre710 ft
- Waterbury700 ft
- Waterbury Center670 ft
- Montpelier650 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.