| Vermont Geographic Stats |
| Total Area: |
9,609 square miles |
| Highest Elevation: |
Mt. Mansfield, 4,395.3 ft.* |
| Lowest Elevation: |
Lake Champlain shoreline, 95 ft. |
| Major Mountains: |
Killington, 4229 ft. |
| Mt. Ellen, 4083 ft. |
| Camel's Hump, 4083 ft. |
| Mt. Abraham, 4017 ft.* |
| Major Rivers: |
Missisquoi River |
| Lamoille River |
| Winooski River |
| White River |
| Otter Creek |
| West River |
| Battenkill River |
| The Connecticut
which runs along Vermont's Eastern boundary |
| Major Lakes: |
Memphramagog |
| Willoughby |
| Bomoseen |
| St. Catherine |
| Lake Champlain, the nation's sixth
largest fresh water lake, runs along Vermont's western
boundary with New York |
In comparison with most states, Vermont is small in total
area. Still, Vermont is the second largest state in New England
after Maine, just a few hundred square miles larger than New
Hampshire.
The Green Mountain State is bordered by Canada, New York,
Massachusetts, and New Hampshire. It is 157.4 miles in length,
90.3 miles wide at the Canadian border*, and 41.6 miles along
the Massachusetts border. The Connecticut River forms the
eastern boundary, while the western boundary runs down the
middle of Lake Champlain for more than half of its length.
 The
state has 223 mountains over 2,000 feet in elevation. The
mountainous areas of the state are primarily forested. In
fact, although Vermont was virtually clear-cut of timber during
the late 19th century, more than 75 percent of the state's
total area is now forested. Beneath the mountains and rolling
hills are the fertile valleys that support an extensive dairy
industry.
As mountain ranges go, the Green Mountains are very old, and have been sculpted to their present form during several ice ages. Granite, marble, slate asbestos and talc have all been mined from the range.
* From the International Boundary Commission
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