Stowe is a

census-designated place A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...

(CDP) comprising the central community in the town of Stowe, Lamoille County,

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, United States. As of the 2010 census the population of the CDP was 495, out of 4,314 in the entire town.

Geography

Stowe village is in the eastern part of the town of Stowe, along the Little River where it is joined by the West Branch.

Vermont Route 100 Vermont Route 100 (VT 100) is a north–south state highway in Vermont in the United States. Running through the center of the state, it travels nearly the entire length of Vermont and is long. VT 100 is the state's longest numbe ...

passes through the village, leading north to Morrisville and south to

Waterbury Waterbury is a city in the U.S. state of Connecticut. Waterbury had a population of 114,403 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 Census. The city is southwest of Hartford, Connecticut, Hartford and northeast of New York City. Waterbury i ...

and

Interstate 89 Interstate 89 (I-89) is an Interstate Highway in the New England region of the United States traveling from Bow, New Hampshire, to the Canada–United States border between Highgate Springs, Vermont, and Saint-Armand, Quebec. As with all ...

Vermont Route 108 Vermont Route 108 (VT 108) is a north–south state highway in northern Vermont, United States. Its southern terminus is at Vermont Route 100, VT 100 in Stowe, Vermont, Stowe, and its northern terminus is at the Canada–United St ...

has its southern terminus in Stowe village and leads north through Smugglers Notch to Jeffersonville. According to the

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, the Stowe CDP has a total area of , of which , or 1.02%, are water. Via the Little River, Stowe is part of the

Winooski River The Winooski River (also known as the Onion River) is a tributary of Lake Champlain, about long, in the northern half of Vermont. Although not Vermont's longest river, it is one of the state's most significant, forming a major valley way fro ...

watershed draining westward to

Lake Champlain Lake Champlain ( ; , ) is a natural freshwater lake in North America. It mostly lies between the U.S. states of New York (state), New York and Vermont, but also extends north into the Canadian province of Quebec. The cities of Burlington, Ve ...

References

{{authority control Census-designated places in Vermont Stowe Census-designated places in Lamoille County, Vermont