Independence Township, NJ Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,230 ft 375 m1,050 ft 320 m960 ft 290 m780 ft 235 m600 ft 180 m510 ft 155 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Independence Township sits at about 700 ft (215 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
700 ft 215 m
most residents: 540–1,040 ft
Lowest
510 ft 155 m
on the west side
Highest
1,230 ft 375 m
on Upper Pohatcong Mountain
Average
710 ft 215 m
all land inside township boundaries
Independence Township spans about 720 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 | 700 ft215 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on Upper Pohatcong Mountain | 1,230 ft375 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 510 ft155 m |
| Average of all land | 710 ft215 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
4.3 mi south to north through the middle of Independence Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Warren County, New Jersey, United States
- Population
- 5,651 2024 est.
- Land area
- 19.8 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 285 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.8693° N, 74.8582° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Delaware River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 3
- 07838 07840 07880
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Washington Township, Morris County920 ft
- Liberty Township720 ft
- Independence Township700 ft
- Panther Valley690 ft
- Allamuchy Township680 ft
- Vienna640 ft
- Beattystown600 ft
- Mansfield Township, Warren County600 ft
- Allamuchy600 ft
- Hackettstown570 ft
- Great Meadows520 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New Jersey49th highest of 941
- Towns in Warren County3rd highest of 58
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Upper Pohatcong Mountain1,230 ft
- Jenny Jump Mountain1,130 ft
- Bucks Hill950 ft
- Post Island570 ft
- Stevens Island540 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).
- 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, 500 ft at 40.8649° N, 74.9132° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.