Dover, NJ Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

960 ft 295 m860 ft 260 m810 ft 245 m700 ft 215 m600 ft 185 m550 ft 165 m

Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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

Dover sits at about 620 ft (190 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

620 ft 190 m

most residents: 560–780 ft

Lowest

550 ft 165 m

on the east side

Highest

960 ft 290 m

on the southwest side

Average

650 ft 200 m

all land inside town limits

Dover spans about 410 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	620 ft190 m
Highest point Inside town limits, on the southwest side	960 ft290 m
Lowest point Inside town limits, on the east side	550 ft165 m
Town center USGS map point for Dover	580 ft180 m
Average of all land	650 ft200 m

Elevation profile, south to north

2.1 mi south to north through the town center.

Topographic Map

Location: Town in Morris County, New Jersey, United States
Population: 18,909 2024 est.
Land area: 2.7 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
Density: 7,066 per sq mi
Coordinates: 40.8840° N, 74.5621° W
Time zone: Eastern UTC−5 / −4
Landform region: New England
Drains to: Passaic River → Atlantic Ocean
ZIP codes 1: 07801

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in New Jersey68th highest of 941
Towns in Morris County30th highest of 70

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

Mount Arlington1,200 ft
Union Hill1,030 ft
Trowbridge Mountain1,000 ft
Randall Hill980 ft
Snake Hill810 ft

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); BTS time zones. All public domain.