Hillside Township, NJ Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
190 ft 55 m140 ft 45 m120 ft 35 m80 ft 24 m37 ft 11 m16 ft 5 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.
- Township area
- Fades everything outside the official township boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Hillside Township sits at about 53 ft (16 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
53 ft 16 m
most residents: 39–140 ft
Lowest
16 ft 5 m
on the south side
Highest
190 ft 55 m
on the northeast side
Average
68 ft 21 m
all land inside township boundaries
Hillside Township spans about 174 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 | 53 ft16 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 190 ft55 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 16 ft5 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Hillside Township | 95 ft29 m |
| Airport (EWR) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.1 mi east of the township boundaries | 18 ft5 m |
| Average of all land | 68 ft21 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.6 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Union County, New Jersey, United States
- Population
- 22,690 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.8 sq mi
- Density
- 8,200 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.7012° N, 74.2301° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Newark Liberty International (EWR) 18 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 07205
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Maplewood Township210 ft
- Vauxhall160 ft
- Irvington Township160 ft
- Union120 ft
- Connecticut Farms110 ft
- Union Township97 ft
- Kenilworth86 ft
- Roselle Park77 ft
- Hillside Township53 ft
- Kean University43 ft
- Elizabeth30 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New Jersey646th highest of 941
- Towns in Union County23rd highest of 27
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Stony Hill, Essex County640 ft
- Mayapple Hill590 ft
- Nook Hill550 ft
- Riker Hill540 ft
- Laurel Hill, Hudson County170 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the township boundaries, 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 township boundaries (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.