Highland Lakes, NJ Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,480 ft 450 m1,300 ft 395 m1,200 ft 365 m1,020 ft 310 m830 ft 255 m740 ft 225 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Highland Lakes sits at about 1,280 ft (390 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,280 ft 390 m
most residents: 1,200–1,360 ft
Lowest
740 ft 225 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,480 ft 450 m
on the southwest side
Average
1,250 ft 380 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Highland Lakes spans about 740 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 | 1,280 ft390 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 1,480 ft450 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 740 ft225 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Highland Lakes | 1,280 ft390 m |
| Airport (4N1) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.6 mi southeast of the CDP boundary | 790 ft241 m |
| Average of all land | 1,250 ft380 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.3 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Sussex County, New Jersey, United States
- Population
- 4,816 2020 Census
- Land area
- 4.3 sq mi + 0.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,114 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.1773° N, 74.4688° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Wallkill River → Hudson River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Greenwood Lake (4N1) 790 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 07422 07462
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Highland Lakes1,280 ft
- Upper Greenwood Lake1,140 ft
- West Milford Township930 ft
- Vernon Township880 ft
- Hewitt670 ft
- Vernon Center650 ft
- Hardyston Township630 ft
- Franklin620 ft
- Hamburg500 ft
- Sussex470 ft
- Vernon Valley440 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New Jerseyhighest of 941
- Towns in Sussex Countyhighest of 32
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Bearfort Mountain1,470 ft
- Wawayanda Mountain1,470 ft
- Maple Hill1,260 ft
- Pochuck Mountain1,200 ft
- Kanouse Mountain1,191 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Highland Lakes is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.