Highlands, NJ Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
240 ft 75 m180 ft 55 m150 ft 45 m91 ft 28 m30 ft 9 m0 ft 0 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
Highlands sits at about 9 ft (3 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
9 ft 3 m
most residents: 5–180 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on Sandy Hook Bay
Highest
240 ft 75 m
on the south side
Average
69 ft 21 m
all land inside borough limits
Highlands spans about 240 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 | 9 ft3 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the south side | 240 ft75 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets Sandy Hook Bay | 0 ft0 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Highlands | 5 ft2 m |
| Average of all land | 69 ft21 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.2 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States
- Population
- 4,337 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.7 sq mi + 0.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 5,861 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.4037° N, 73.9915° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 07732
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Fairview, Monmouth County46 ft
- Navesink43 ft
- Atlantic Highlands32 ft
- Fair Haven31 ft
- Leonardo22 ft
- Little Silver22 ft
- Rumson18 ft
- Belford10 ft
- Highlands9 ft
- Monmouth Beach7 ft
- Sea Bright6 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New Jersey877th highest of 941
- Towns in Monmouth County70th highest of 75
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Crawford Hill370 ft
- Telegraph Hill350 ft
- Highlands of Navesink270 ft
- Garrett Hill200 ft
- Sugar Loaf Hill180 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, −3 ft at 40.4085° N, 73.9938° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted; this coastal land's lowest point is sea level on the coast.
- 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 and Watershed Boundary Dataset; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); BTS time zones. All public domain.