Fort Lee, NJ Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
360 ft 110 m270 ft 85 m230 ft 70 m140 ft 40 m47 ft 14 m2 ft 1 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.
- Borough area
- Fades everything outside the official borough limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Fort Lee sits at about 300 ft (90 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
300 ft 90 m
most residents: 250–340 ft
Lowest
2 ft 1 m
on the southeast side
Highest
360 ft 110 m
on the north side
Average
280 ft 85 m
all land inside borough limits
Fort Lee spans about 358 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 | 300 ft90 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the north side | 360 ft110 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the southeast side | 2 ft1 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Fort Lee | 290 ft85 m |
| Airport (EWR) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 14 mi southwest of the borough limits | 18 ft5 m |
| Average of all land | 280 ft85 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.8 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States
- Population
- 40,566 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.5 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 16,110 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.8509° N, 73.9701° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Newark Liberty International (EWR) 18 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 07024
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Englewood Cliffs350 ft
- Fort Lee300 ft
- Cliffside Park260 ft
- Fairview230 ft
- Palisades Park100 ft
- Leonia97 ft
- Bogota83 ft
- Ridgefield71 ft
- Ridgefield Park60 ft
- Englewood41 ft
- Edgewater14 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New Jersey189th highest of 941
- Towns in Bergen County10th highest of 71
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Stony Hill, Essex County640 ft
- Kings Bluff180 ft
- Andre Hill170 ft
- Laurel Hill, Hudson County170 ft
- Little Snake Hill72 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the borough 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 borough 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.