Newark, DE Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
340 ft 105 m260 ft 80 m230 ft 70 m150 ft 45 m79 ft 24 m42 ft 13 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Newark sits at about 120 ft (35 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
120 ft 35 m
most residents: 100–190 ft
Lowest
42 ft 13 m
on the northeast side
Highest
340 ft 105 m
on the north side
Average
130 ft 40 m
all land inside city limits
Newark spans about 298 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 | 120 ft35 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 340 ft105 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 42 ft13 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Newark | 130 ft40 m |
| Airport (ILG) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.3 mi east of the city limits | 80 ft24 m |
| Average of all land | 130 ft40 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.3 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in New Castle County, Delaware, United States
- Population
- 30,506 2024 est.
- Land area
- 9.5 sq mi
- Density
- 3,220 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.6837° N, 75.7497° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- New Castle (ILG) 80 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 19711 19713 19716 19717
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Franklin Township, Chester County, PA360 ft
- North Star330 ft
- London Britain Township, PA320 ft
- Hockessin320 ft
- Pike Creek250 ft
- Pike Creek Valley210 ft
- Newark120 ft
- Brookside76 ft
- Glasgow75 ft
- Bear68 ft
- Elkton, MD65 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Delaware10th highest of 79
- Towns in New Castle County10th 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 city 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 city 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.