Passaic County, NJ Elevation & Topographic Map

Topographic elevation map of Passaic County, New Jersey, shaded from 2 ft on the southeast side to 1,470 ft on Bearfort Mountain
Elevation
1,470 ft 450 m1,110 ft 335 m920 ft 280 m550 ft 170 m190 ft 55 m2 ft 1 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 ft
USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau
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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
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The exact elevation of that spot in ft and m.
Measure
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County area
Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).

Elevation Data

Passaic County averages about 600 ft (180 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 2 ft on the southeast side to 1,470 ft on Bearfort Mountain.

Average elevation
600 ft 180 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,470 ft 450 m
on Bearfort Mountain
Lowest
2 ft 1 m
on the southeast side

Passaic County spans about 1,468 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.

FigureElevation
Average of all land600 ft180 m
Highest point
Inside the county, on Bearfort Mountain
1,470 ft450 m
Lowest point
Inside the county, on the southeast side
2 ft1 m

Elevation profile, south to north

9.3 mi south to north through Paterson.

Topographic Map

Topographic elevation map of Passaic County, New Jersey, shaded from 2 ft on the southeast side to 1,470 ft on Bearfort Mountain
County boundary (dashed) over shaded terrain, with contours every 100 ft (30 m).
Location
County in New Jersey, United States
Population
526,597 2024 est.
Land area
186.1 sq mi + 12.4 sq mi water
Density
2,829 per sq mi
Time zone
Eastern UTC−5 / −4
Landform regions
New England 77%, Piedmont 23%
Drains to
Atlantic Ocean
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average

  1. Sussex County790 ft
  2. Morris County640 ft
  3. Orange County, NY630 ft
  4. Passaic County600 ft
  5. Rockland County, NY460 ft
  6. Essex County240 ft
  7. Bergen County210 ft

Rankings by average elevation

Peaks and hills highest inside

  • Bearfort Mountain1,470 ft
  • Kanouse Mountain1,191 ft
  • Mount Defiance1,030 ft
  • Torne Mountain990 ft
  • Preakness Mountain881 ft
All 28 towns in Passaic County by typical elevation
  1. Upper Greenwood Lake1,140 ft
  2. West Milford Township930 ft
  3. Newfoundland850 ft
  4. Oak Ridge partly830 ft
  5. Macopin820 ft
  6. Hewitt670 ft
  7. William Paterson University of New Jersey510 ft
  8. Ringwood490 ft
  9. North Haledon390 ft
  10. Montclair State University380 ft
  11. Bloomingdale380 ft
  12. Pines Lake330 ft
  13. Great Notch330 ft
  14. Preakness290 ft
  15. Wayne Township280 ft
  16. Woodland Park260 ft
  17. Packanack Lake260 ft
  18. Wanaque260 ft
  19. Pompton Lakes210 ft
  20. Totowa200 ft
  21. Little Falls Township200 ft
  22. Prospect Park180 ft
  23. Haledon170 ft
  24. Singac170 ft
  25. Clifton120 ft
  26. Hawthorne120 ft
  27. Paterson100 ft
  28. Passaic62 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.
  • Highest ground: the single highest 3DEP cell, 1,480 ft at 41.1371° N, 74.3976° W, has no federal (GNIS) summit name within 980 ft (300 m), so the high point shown is the highest of the 25 highest cells with a GNIS summit within 1,640 ft (500 m).
  • 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, 0 ft at 40.8232° N, 74.1243° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
  • 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.