Plainfield, NJ Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
210 ft 65 m170 ft 50 m150 ft 45 m110 ft 35 m66 ft 20 m45 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Plainfield sits at about 96 ft (29 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
96 ft 29 m
most residents: 80–130 ft
Lowest
45 ft 14 m
on the southwest side
Highest
210 ft 65 m
on the southeast side
Average
100 ft 30 m
all land inside city limits
Plainfield spans about 165 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 | 96 ft29 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 210 ft65 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 45 ft14 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Plainfield | 120 ft35 m |
| Airport (EWR) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 12 mi east of the city limits | 18 ft5 m |
| Average of all land | 100 ft30 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Union County, New Jersey, United States
- Population
- 56,507 2024 est.
- Land area
- 6.0 sq mi
- Density
- 9,483 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.6337° N, 74.4074° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Newark Liberty International (EWR) 18 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 07060 07062 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
- New Providence250 ft
- Gillette240 ft
- Mountainside190 ft
- Fanwood160 ft
- Scotch Plains Township150 ft
- Westfield120 ft
- North Plainfield99 ft
- Plainfield96 ft
- South Plainfield79 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New Jersey448th highest of 941
- Towns in Union County13th highest of 27
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Kemble720 ft
- Kemble Mountain710 ft
- Blachleys Hill690 ft
- Mayapple Hill590 ft
- Nook Hill550 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city 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 city 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.