Hockessin, DE Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
410 ft 125 m330 ft 100 m290 ft 90 m210 ft 65 m130 ft 40 m85 ft 26 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Hockessin sits at about 320 ft (95 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
320 ft 95 m
most residents: 270–380 ft
Lowest
85 ft 26 m
on the southeast side
Highest
410 ft 125 m
on the east side
Average
300 ft 90 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Hockessin spans about 325 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 | 320 ft95 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 410 ft125 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 85 ft26 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Hockessin | 260 ft80 m |
| Airport (ILG) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.0 mi southeast of the CDP boundary | 80 ft24 m |
| Average of all land | 300 ft90 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in New Castle County, Delaware, United States
- Population
- 13,478 2020 Census
- Land area
- 10.0 sq mi
- Density
- 1,342 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.7876° N, 75.6966° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- New Castle (ILG) 80 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 19707 19736 19807
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Toughkenamon, PA390 ft
- New Garden Township, PA370 ft
- Kennett Township, PA350 ft
- North Star330 ft
- London Britain Township, PA320 ft
- Hockessin320 ft
- Kennett Square, PA310 ft
- Avondale, PA290 ft
- Pike Creek250 ft
- Greenville250 ft
- Pike Creek Valley210 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Delaware2nd highest of 79
- Towns in New Castle County2nd highest of 26
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Horseshoe Hill410 ft
- Iron Hill330 ft
- Chestnut Hill300 ft
- Drummond Hill290 ft
- Sandy Brae170 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Hockessin is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.