Morris County, NJ Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,390 ft 425 m1,080 ft 330 m930 ft 285 m620 ft 190 m310 ft 95 m160 ft 50 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Morris County averages about 640 ft (195 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 160 ft on the east side to 1,390 ft on the north side.
Average elevation
640 ft 195 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,390 ft 425 m
on the north side
Lowest
160 ft 50 m
on the east side
Morris County spans about 1,230 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 640 ft195 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the north side | 1,390 ft425 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the east side | 160 ft50 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
25 mi west to east through Parsippany-Troy Hills Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in New Jersey, United States
- Population
- 523,053 2024 est.
- Land area
- 461.0 sq mi + 20.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,135 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England 95%
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Sussex County790 ft
- Morris County640 ft
- Warren County610 ft
- Passaic County600 ft
- Hunterdon County410 ft
- Essex County240 ft
- Somerset County200 ft
- Union County120 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in New Jersey2nd highest of 21
- Counties in the United States2,153rd highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Bowling Green Mountain1,380 ft
- Green Pond Mountain1,280 ft
- Copperas Mountain1,240 ft
- Picatinny Peak1,210 ft
- Schooleys Mountain1,210 ft
All 70 towns in Morris County by typical elevation
- Ledgewood1,050 ft
- Budd Lake1,040 ft
- Landing1,000 ft
- Mount Olive Township1,000 ft
- Mount Arlington990 ft
- Lake Hopatcong990 ft
- Jefferson Township930 ft
- Washington Township, Morris County920 ft
- Netcong910 ft
- Randolph Township880 ft
- Port Morris880 ft
- Chester860 ft
- Mine Hill Township840 ft
- Oak Ridge830 ft
- Mount Hope820 ft
- White Meadow Lake780 ft
- Kinnelon780 ft
- Long Valley760 ft
- Rockaway Township760 ft
- Roxbury Township760 ft
- Chester Township760 ft
- Lake Telemark740 ft
- Succasunna730 ft
- Hibernia720 ft
- Kenvil720 ft
- Lower Berkshire Valley710 ft
- Flanders700 ft
- Wharton670 ft
- Boonton Township630 ft
- Dover620 ft
- Victory Gardens610 ft
- Rockaway590 ft
- Mendham Township590 ft
- Mount Tabor580 ft
- Denville Township570 ft
- Mendham550 ft
- Brookside540 ft
- Rainbow Lakes510 ft
- Mountain Lakes510 ft
- Boonton490 ft
- Butler480 ft
- Morris Plains400 ft
- Morris Township390 ft
- New Vernon370 ft
- Morristown360 ft
- Harding Township340 ft
- Towaco310 ft
- Chatham Township300 ft
- Parsippany-Troy Hills Township300 ft
- Cedar Knolls300 ft
- Parsippany290 ft
- Madison280 ft
- Hanover Township280 ft
- Lake Hiawatha270 ft
- Whippany260 ft
- Montville Township250 ft
- Millington250 ft
- Green Village250 ft
- Long Hill Township240 ft
- Stirling240 ft
- Troy Hills240 ft
- Gillette240 ft
- Chatham230 ft
- Riverdale220 ft
- Florham Park200 ft
- Pompton Plains190 ft
- East Hanover Township190 ft
- Pequannock Township190 ft
- Lincoln Park180 ft
- Pine Brook180 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.