Waterbury, VT Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,370 ft 1,030 m2,620 ft 795 m2,240 ft 680 m1,480 ft 450 m720 ft 220 m350 ft 105 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
Waterbury sits at about 700 ft (215 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
700 ft 215 m
most residents: 420–1,060 ft
Lowest
350 ft 105 m
on the northwest side
Highest
3,370 ft 1,030 m
on Ricker Mountain
Average
1,160 ft 355 m
all land inside town boundaries
Waterbury spans about 3,020 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 | 700 ft215 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on Ricker Mountain | 3,370 ft1,030 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the northwest side | 350 ft105 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Waterbury | 440 ft135 m |
| Average of all land | 1,160 ft355 m |
| Nearest peak Mount Mansfield, 6.3 mi north of the town boundaries (NGS survey) | 4,395 ft1,340 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
7.6 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Washington County, Vermont, United States
- Population
- 5,434 2024 est.
- Land area
- 48.2 sq mi + 1.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 113 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.3378° N, 72.7562° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Winooski River → Richelieu River → Canada
- ZIP codes 2
- 05676 05677
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Bolton Valley1,860 ft
- Worcester1,140 ft
- Duxbury1,130 ft
- Middlesex1,060 ft
- Bolton1,050 ft
- Stowe980 ft
- Waitsfield900 ft
- Moretown760 ft
- Waterbury700 ft
- Waterbury Center670 ft
- Montpelier650 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Vermont214th highest of 331
- Towns in Washington County24th highest of 26
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Mansfield4,395 ft
- Camels Hump4,079 ft
- Bolton Mountain3,710 ft
- Sterling Mountain3,700 ft
- Mount Hunger3,570 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.