Mountainside, NJ Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
540 ft 165 m420 ft 130 m370 ft 110 m250 ft 75 m130 ft 40 m76 ft 23 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
Mountainside sits at about 190 ft (60 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
190 ft 60 m
most residents: 150–440 ft
Lowest
76 ft 23 m
on the east side
Highest
540 ft 165 m
on the north side
Average
270 ft 85 m
all land inside borough limits
Mountainside spans about 464 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 | 190 ft60 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the north side | 540 ft165 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the east side | 76 ft23 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Mountainside | 140 ft45 m |
| Airport (EWR) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.6 mi east of the borough limits | 18 ft5 m |
| Average of all land | 270 ft85 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.3 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Union County, New Jersey, United States
- Population
- 7,228 2024 est.
- Land area
- 4.0 sq mi
- Density
- 1,808 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.6723° N, 74.3574° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Newark Liberty International (EWR) 18 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 07092
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Summit360 ft
- New Providence250 ft
- Mountainside190 ft
- Fanwood160 ft
- Scotch Plains Township150 ft
- Westfield120 ft
- Springfield Township110 ft
- Springfield93 ft
- Garwood87 ft
- Cranford Township73 ft
- Cranford68 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New Jersey261st highest of 941
- Towns in Union County4th highest of 27
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Kemble Mountain710 ft
- Mayapple Hill590 ft
- Fort Nonsense Hill590 ft
- Nook Hill550 ft
- Riker Hill540 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).
- 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.