Albany Vermont Map

About Albany, Vermont

Albany is a locality in Orleans County, Vermont, United States. It is a small community with a population of 166. The population density is 41.6 people per km². Albany is located at 44.7309°N, 72.3798°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Albany is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 05820.

Albany claims a quiet sovereignty over the northern landscape, where the Shalney Branch carves a persistent, winding path through the heavy earth. It lies 39.6 miles east-northeast of Essex Junction, VT (from Essex Junction, VT: bearing 65°T), and is situated 16.6 miles south-southwest of Newport. The terrain unfolds in a series of deliberate, moss-softened slopes that rise toward the distant, hazy silhouette of the Green Mountains, visible only when the sky clears of its characteristic slate-gray clouds. A mile from the village center, the still surface of Page Pond acts as a dark mirror for the surrounding hardwoods, while the dense, shadowed reaches of the Lowell Municipal Forest offer a stark contrast to the open, frost-bitten pastures. In the autumn, the air grows thin and sharp, carrying the scent of damp pine and the cooling iron of the creek bed, a reminder that the land here is less a backdrop than a participant in the daily passage of light.

Albany maintains a steady, agrarian pulse that has persisted since the earliest settlers broke the soil to establish the foundations of a working life. While the Craftsbury Academy Woodlot preserves a necessary wildness nearby, the local economy remains tethered to the rhythm of the seasons, shifting from the frantic, amber-hued labor of maple-sugaring in the spring to the slow, methodical maintenance of dairy barns and timbered outbuildings. The history of the place is not written in grand monuments, but in the stubborn endurance of its fence lines and the weathered siding of barns that lean slightly into the prevailing wind. Life moves with an unadorned gravity, far removed from the frantic pace of the lowlands, as the residents of Albany continue to cultivate a subsistence that relies as much on the deep, cold silence of the Bigelow Basin as it does on the community’s collective memory of the long, snow-bound winters.

About This Albany Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Albany, Vermont. Coordinates: 44.730883, -72.37983. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Albany includes the ZIP code (05820), telephone area code (802), county seat of Orleans County (Newport), and school district assignment (Lake Region Union Elementary Middle School District).

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.