Wells, VT Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,110 ft 645 m1,670 ft 510 m1,450 ft 445 m1,020 ft 310 m580 ft 175 m360 ft 110 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 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
Wells sits at about 530 ft (160 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
530 ft 160 m
most residents: 480–1,230 ft
Lowest
360 ft 110 m
on the west side
Highest
2,110 ft 645 m
on Northeast Mountain
Average
930 ft 280 m
all land inside town boundaries
Wells spans about 1,750 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 | 530 ft160 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on Northeast Mountain | 2,110 ft645 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the west side | 360 ft110 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Wells | 510 ft155 m |
| Airport (RUT) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 11 mi northeast of the town boundaries | 787 ft240 m |
| Average of all land | 930 ft280 m |
| Nearest peak Dorset Mountain, 8.0 mi southeast of the town boundaries | 3,770 ft1,150 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.5 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Rutland County, Vermont, United States
- Population
- 1,208 2024 est.
- Land area
- 22.3 sq mi + 0.9 sq mi water
- Density
- 54 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.4173° N, 73.2043° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Richelieu River → Canada
- Airport
- Rutland/Southern Vermont Regional (RUT) 787 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 05764 05774
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Middletown Springs1,140 ft
- Pawlet790 ft
- Hampton, NY680 ft
- West Pawlet570 ft
- Wells530 ft
- East Poultney490 ft
- Poultney460 ft
- Village of Poultney420 ft
- Granville, NY420 ft
- Village of Granville, NY410 ft
- North Granville, NY310 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Vermont255th highest of 331
- Towns in Rutland County25th highest of 34
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Dorset Mountain3,770 ft
- Woodlawn Mountain3,060 ft
- Tinmouth Mountain2,820 ft
- Herrick Mountain2,710 ft
- Vanderburg Mountain1,920 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.