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Orleans CountyVermont

Coventry, Vermont

Bedrock sits a median 23 ft down across 281 logs, close to the Vermont median of 20 ft. None of its 11 inventoried bridges is rated poor.

Median depth to bedrock

23 ft

middle half 7–91 ft · 281 logs

Bridges rated poor

0

of 11 inventoried

Mapped landslides

5

USGS inventory points

FEMA repair $, Orleans County

$23.8M

federal share since 2010 · county-wide

01 · Ground

Rock turns up a median 23 ft down

From 281 depth-to-rock records inside Coventry (Vermont DEC well records). Logs cluster where people drill wells and bore for roads, so treat this as the town’s pattern, not a site answer.

Half of Coventry's logs reach rock between 7 and 91 ft

Depth to bedrock: 10th–90th percentile whisker, middle-half box, median tick; dashed line = Vermont median.
median 23 ft
VT 20 ft
050100150 ft
0204060800–5 ft5–10 ft10–20 ft20–50 ft50–100 ft100+ ft
n = 281 logsSource: Vermont DEC well records
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Depth to rock (ft)Logs
0–523
5–1063
10–2046
20–5036
50–10050
100+63

Rock within 10 ft

36%

of logs (34% across Vermont). Shallow rock means ledge in excavations, refusal for driven piles and rock anchors rather than soil nails; deep ground means taller shoring and more groundwater. 39% of logs here go past 50 ft.

Mapped landslides

5

5 mass failure. Inventory points from the USGS U.S. Landslide Inventory; many are prehistoric slides mapped from lidar.

02 · Bridges

None of Coventry's 11 bridges is rated poor

Every highway bridge and large culvert in the 2025 National Bridge Inventory that stands inside Coventry. Median age 55 years; 1 posted for weight.

55% good, 0% poor

FHWA good / fair / poor rating — the lowest of deck, superstructure, substructure or culvert.
  • Good6 · 55%
  • Fair5 · 45%
  • Poor0 · 0%
n = 11 structuresSource: FHWA National Bridge Inventory 2025
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BuiltStructures
1930s1
1940s1
1950s2
1970s3
1980s1
1990s2
2010s1

03 · Dams & disasters

Orleans County has drawn $23.8M in federal disaster repair since 2010

FEMA Public Assistance is reported by county, so the figure below is Orleans County-wide context, not a Coventry number.

FEMA Public Assistance, Orleans County

$23.8M

Federal share obligated across 415 projects in 15 declared disasters since 2010. The largest category is roads & bridges (82%); roads & bridges took $19.6M.
Dams, disasters & moving ground

04 · Next door

Coventry and the 5 towns that border it

A dash means no data for that layer, not zero.
Coventry compared with neighbouring towns
TownPoor bridgesRock depth
Coventry, VT0 / 1123 ft
Derby, VT0 / 1520 ft
Irasburg, VT0 / 930 ft
Newport city, VT0 / 866 ft
Brownington, VT0 / 517 ft
Newport town, VT0 / 534 ft

Where these numbers come from

Method, sources & caveats

Coventry is the Census county subdivision 5001916150 (Orleans County). Every record is placed here by its coordinates, not by the place name the source uses.

  • Towns are Census county subdivisions: cities, towns, plantations, and Maine/New Hampshire unorganized territories and townships. Every record is placed in a town by its coordinates (point-in-polygon), not by the source's own place label — so a bridge in Roxbury counts for Boston and a well in 'North Waltham' counts for Waltham.
  • Bridges: FHWA NBI 2025, highway structures ≥ 20 ft including large culverts. 'Poor' is FHWA's good/fair/poor rating (lowest of deck, superstructure, substructure or culvert ≤ 4). Percent-poor is shown only for towns with at least 5 structures.
  • Depth to bedrock is the median of driller- and boring-reported depths in the town, shown only where at least 10 logs exist. Water-well logs over-sample rural lots and hilltops; one town median never describes a particular site.
  • Bedrock depths use the same state databases and filters as the Bedrock & soils module (bedrock wells and borings that reached rock, 0 < depth ≤ 400 ft, exact re-filings dropped), but every log is placed in a town by its coordinates rather than the driller's town field, so town counts can differ slightly between the two pages. Connecticut and Rhode Island have no statewide public well-log database with depths.
  • Dams: only high-hazard-potential dams whose latest condition assessment is Poor or Unsatisfactory are counted (live NID). Connecticut and Rhode Island assessments may lag.
  • FEMA Public Assistance dollars are federal share obligated for disasters declared since 2010, reported by county — they are county context, not a town figure.
  • Grant awards are Massachusetts only (EEA Dam & Seawall program, MVP Action grants, CZM Coastal Resilience). Other states' programs are not yet included.
  • Ground-related permit counts cover only the municipal portals the pipeline reads (Boston, Cambridge, Somerville, Worcester, Framingham, Providence, Portsmouth, Hartford and a few others) — an absent count means 'not covered', not zero.
Data as of
Sep 11, 2026
Generated
Sep 11, 2026
Records
367,748
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Published by Earth Support Corp as a public resource. Regional statistics for planning and curiosity. They are not an engineering report, a bid recommendation or a statement about any particular site, firm or project. Spot an error? Tell us and we will correct it. Full method: methodology.

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