North Plainfield, NJ Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
210 ft 65 m170 ft 50 m150 ft 45 m110 ft 35 m67 ft 20 m47 ft 14 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
North Plainfield sits at about 99 ft (30 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
99 ft 30 m
most residents: 73–120 ft
Lowest
47 ft 14 m
on the southwest side
Highest
210 ft 65 m
on the southwest edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
97 ft 30 m
all land inside borough limits
North Plainfield spans about 163 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 | 99 ft30 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the southwest edge, below higher ground just outside | 210 ft65 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the southwest side | 47 ft14 m |
| Town center USGS map point for North Plainfield | 120 ft35 m |
| Airport (EWR) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 13 mi east of the borough limits | 18 ft5 m |
| Average of all land | 97 ft30 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.3 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States
- Population
- 23,072 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.8 sq mi
- Density
- 8,219 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.6301° N, 74.4274° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Newark Liberty International (EWR) 18 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 07060 07063
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Watchung320 ft
- Berkeley Heights Township280 ft
- Stirling240 ft
- Gillette240 ft
- Fanwood160 ft
- Green Brook Township160 ft
- Scotch Plains Township150 ft
- North Plainfield99 ft
- Plainfield96 ft
- South Plainfield79 ft
- Dunellen55 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New Jersey428th highest of 941
- Towns in Somerset County39th highest of 57
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Gillespie Hill740 ft
- Mount Kemble720 ft
- Kemble Mountain710 ft
- Blachleys Hill690 ft
- Nook Hill550 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.