Plainsboro Township, NJ Elevation & Topographic Map

Topographic elevation map of Plainsboro Township, New Jersey, shaded from 52 ft on the southwest side to 130 ft on the northwest side
Elevation
130 ft 40 m110 ft 35 m100 ft 30 m81 ft 25 m62 ft 19 m52 ft 16 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 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
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.
Township area
Fades everything outside the official township boundaries (US Census).

Elevation Data

Plainsboro Township sits at about 84 ft (26 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation
84 ft 26 m
most residents: 70–100 ft
Lowest
52 ft 16 m
on the southwest side
Highest
130 ft 40 m
on the northwest side
Average
84 ft 26 m
all land inside township boundaries

Plainsboro Township spans about 78 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.

FigureElevation
Typical
Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower
84 ft26 m
Highest point
Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side
130 ft40 m
Lowest point
Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side
52 ft16 m
Town center
USGS map point for Plainsboro Township
84 ft26 m
Airport (TTN)
FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 11 mi west of the township boundaries
213 ft65 m
Average of all land84 ft26 m

Elevation profile, south to north

3.1 mi south to north through the town center.

Topographic Map

Topographic elevation map of Plainsboro Township, New Jersey, shaded from 52 ft on the southwest side to 130 ft on the northwest side
Township boundaries (dashed) over shaded terrain, with contours every 10 ft (3 m).
Location
Township in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States
Population
24,558 2024 est.
Land area
11.8 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
Density
2,088 per sq mi
Coordinates
40.3334° N, 74.6004° W
Time zone
Eastern UTC−5 / −4
Landform region
Coastal Plain
Drains to
Atlantic Ocean
Airport
Trenton Mercer (TTN) 213 ft
ZIP codes 3
08512 08536 08540
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

  1. Heathcote180 ft
  2. Princeton170 ft
  3. Cranbury110 ft
  4. Kingston100 ft
  5. Cranbury Township99 ft
  6. Princeton Junction97 ft
  7. Monmouth Junction95 ft
  8. West Windsor Township90 ft
  9. Plainsboro Township84 ft
  10. Princeton Meadows84 ft
  11. Plainsboro Center75 ft

Rankings by typical elevation

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

  • Mount Rose418 ft
  • Rocky Hill410 ft
  • Tenmile Run Mountain320 ft
  • Disbrows Hill276 ft
  • Bunker Hill190 ft
How we measure
  • Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the township boundaries, 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 township boundaries (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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.