Branchburg Township, NJ Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
230 ft 70 m180 ft 55 m160 ft 50 m120 ft 35 m72 ft 22 m49 ft 15 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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.
- Township area
- Fades everything outside the official township boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Branchburg Township sits at about 140 ft (45 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
140 ft 45 m
most residents: 110–190 ft
Lowest
49 ft 15 m
on the southeast side
Highest
230 ft 70 m
on the northeast side
Average
130 ft 40 m
all land inside township boundaries
Branchburg Township spans about 181 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 | 140 ft45 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 230 ft70 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 49 ft15 m |
| Airport (N51) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.7 mi northwest of the township boundaries | 190 ft58 m |
| Average of all land | 130 ft40 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.3 mi west to east through the middle of Branchburg Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States
- Population
- 15,619 2024 est.
- Land area
- 20.1 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 778 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.5702° N, 74.7154° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Raritan River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Solberg/Hunterdon (N51) 190 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 08853 08876
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Readington Township190 ft
- White House Station170 ft
- Neshanic160 ft
- Branchburg Township140 ft
- Neshanic Station140 ft
- Bridgewater Center130 ft
- Flagtown130 ft
- Bridgewater Township120 ft
- Bradley Gardens100 ft
- Hillsborough100 ft
- Raritan71 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New Jersey313th highest of 941
- Towns in Somerset County21st highest of 57
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Cushetunk Mountain840 ft
- Round Mountain600 ft
- Sourland Mountain570 ft
- Round Top520 ft
- Pheasant Hill450 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the township boundaries, 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 township boundaries (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.