Waterville, VT Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,390 ft 730 m1,910 ft 580 m1,670 ft 510 m1,190 ft 360 m710 ft 215 m460 ft 140 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
Waterville sits at about 1,220 ft (370 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,220 ft 370 m
most residents: 570–1,480 ft
Lowest
460 ft 140 m
near the middle
Highest
2,390 ft 730 m
at the foot of the Cold Hollow Mountains
Average
1,090 ft 330 m
all land inside town boundaries
Waterville spans about 1,930 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 | 1,220 ft370 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, at the foot of the Cold Hollow Mountains | 2,390 ft730 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, near the middle | 460 ft140 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Waterville | 500 ft155 m |
| Average of all land | 1,090 ft330 m |
| Nearest peak Sterling Mountain, 6.1 mi south of the town boundaries | 3,700 ft1,130 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.2 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Lamoille County, Vermont, United States
- Population
- 667 2024 est.
- Land area
- 15.7 sq mi
- Density
- 43 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.6903° N, 72.7690° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Lamoille River → Richelieu River → Canada
- ZIP codes 1
- 05492
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Belvidere1,380 ft
- Waterville1,220 ft
- North Hyde Park870 ft
- Hyde Park860 ft
- Fletcher840 ft
- Bakersfield750 ft
- Johnson720 ft
- Cambridge700 ft
- Village of Johnson610 ft
- Jeffersonville490 ft
- Village of Cambridge450 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Vermont95th highest of 331
- Towns in Lamoille County4th highest of 16
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).
- 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.