Harrison, NJ Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
100 ft 30 m78 ft 24 m65 ft 20 m40 ft 12 m15 ft 5 m3 ft 1 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Harrison sits at about 21 ft (6 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
21 ft 6 m
most residents: 10–36 ft
Lowest
3 ft 1 m
on the southwest side
Highest
100 ft 30 m
on the north side
Average
19 ft 6 m
all land inside town limits
Harrison spans about 97 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 | 21 ft6 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the north side | 100 ft30 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the southwest side | 3 ft1 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Harrison | 29 ft9 m |
| Airport (EWR) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.9 mi south of the town limits | 18 ft5 m |
| Average of all land | 19 ft6 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.3 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States
- Population
- 22,182 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.2 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 18,317 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.7465° N, 74.1563° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Newark Liberty International (EWR) 18 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 07029
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- East Orange170 ft
- Irvington Township160 ft
- Watsessing130 ft
- Newark110 ft
- Belleville Township110 ft
- Ampere North110 ft
- Silver Lake110 ft
- North Arlington100 ft
- Kearny88 ft
- East Newark27 ft
- Harrison21 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New Jersey788th highest of 941
- Towns in Hudson County10th highest of 12
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Stony Hill, Essex County640 ft
- Mayapple Hill590 ft
- Kings Bluff180 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 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.