page_title: Craftsbury, Vermont
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Craftsbury, Vermont / Geography
caption_attribution_description: English: Looking across the commons in Craftsbury Common Vermont, with the United Church of Christ in the background.
context_page_description: Craftsbury is a town in Orleans County, Vermont, United States. The population was 1,136 at the 2000 census. The town includes the unincorporated villages of Craftsbury, Craftsbury Common, Mill Village, North Craftsbury, and East Craftsbury.
context_section_description: According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 39.7 square miles (102.9 km²), of which 39.3 square miles (101.7 km²) is land and 0.4 square mile (1.1 km²) (1.11%) is water.
  Craftsbury is on a plateau on the Catamount Trail.
  There are many hills and valleys. The soil varies from alluvial meadows to clay and gravel. There are more numerous grades and varieties of soil than is usual.
  There are five ponds or lakes.
  Lake Elligo (also known as Eligo Pond) is partially in Greensboro. It is about two miles long and half a mile wide. Unusually, it has two outlets: one flows to the north and the other to the south. The northern outlet is one of the head branches of Black River. The southern flows through Little Elligo Pond and on to the Lamoille River in Hardwick. The eastern shore rises to cliffs. The western shore rises gradually. Near the center of the pond are two small islands. The lake was formerly a hunting-ground of the St. Francis Indians, who named it Elligo Scoloon.
  The others are Great Hosmer Pond, lying partly in Albany, Little Hosmer Pond, and two other small ponds. The Black River is the main river in town. It was called Elligo-sigo by the natives. Its current is slow. The drop from its source to Lake Memphremagog, including the falls at Irasburg and Coventry, is 190 feet. Wild branch, a tributary of the Lamoille, rises in Eden and flows through the western part of the town. The valley of the Black river in Craftsbury is a muck bed averaging a quarter of a mile in width.
caption: A view across Craftsbury Common showing the United Church of Craftsbury, and bandstand.
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