Clayton, DE Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
65 ft 20 m52 ft 16 m45 ft 14 m32 ft 10 m18 ft 6 m12 ft 4 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 ft
USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau
How to use this mapviews, tools and data
- Elevation
- Ground colored by height from green (lowest) to white (highest), with contour lines every 40–500 ft (USGS data).
- Satellite
- A 2016 satellite photo at 33 ft (10 m) detail; contours off.
- 3D
- Tilt and turn the terrain; hills are raised 1.5×, or set ×1 for true height.
- Click or tap anywhere
- The exact elevation of that spot in ft and m.
- Measure
- Pick two points for the climb, descent and grade along a straight line.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Clayton sits at about 44 ft (13 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
44 ft 13 m
most residents: 35–47 ft
Lowest
12 ft 4 m
on the north side
Highest
65 ft 20 m
on the south side
Average
41 ft 12 m
all land inside town limits
Clayton spans about 53 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where its people live, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 44 ft13 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the south side | 65 ft20 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the north side | 12 ft4 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Clayton | 45 ft14 m |
| Airport (33N) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.6 mi south of the town limits | 55 ft17 m |
| Average of all land | 41 ft12 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.5 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Kent County, Delaware, United States
- Population
- 4,511 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.0 sq mi
- Density
- 2,305 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.2907° N, 75.6344° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Delaware Airpark (33N) 55 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 19938
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Hartly70 ft
- Townsend60 ft
- Kenton60 ft
- Middletown59 ft
- Odessa46 ft
- Clayton44 ft
- Cheswold42 ft
- Smyrna35 ft
- Dover33 ft
- Millington, MD26 ft
- Leipsic7 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Delaware36th highest of 79
- Towns in Kent County10th highest of 26
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the town limits, at its USGS 3DEP height, weighted by the people who live there. Half of residents live higher, half lower.
- Lowest, highest, average: USGS 3DEP bare-earth heights on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid, land only, inside the Census town limits (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Nearby Places: nearby towns and rankings use each town's typical elevation, so every town is compared like for like. Rankings count every city, town, township and census-designated place, including places inside a town. Peaks and hills: the nearest summits with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence within 62 mi (100 km), then federal (GNIS) summits within 16 mi (25 km) when there are fewer than 5; each is the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a usable survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it (shown as published).
- Rounding: computed heights are rounded to 10 ft (5 m), or to 1 ft (1 m) under 100 ft; 3DEP is good to about a meter, not a foot. Published figures (FAA airport elevation, NGS survey heights) are shown as their publisher gives them.
- Datum: North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88). NGS plans to replace NAVD 88 with a new datum (NAPGD2022); heights will then shift slightly.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.