Tucked into the southern terminus of the Green Mountains of Vermont, Wilmington is a tiny village of just over 2,000 people.

The new bedrock map of Vermont is a chronology of this state expressed in stone as old as 1.4 billion years, and it is an emerging tool for making informed decisions about everything from highways ...

Vermont state geologist Edward Hitchcock and a group of Amherst College students were on a mission. At 1 o’clock one morning in 1860, they boarded a train from Rutland to East Dorset.

Vermont Those early surveyors had to climb mountains, ford rivers and slog through swamps as they divided the land into 251 towns and then apportioned the towns into lots. But their maps and ...

Towns dotting Vermont’s mountain valleys are a major draw for the state’s tourism industry. But their topography is also a vulnerability in a changing climate.