Prospect Park, NJ Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
390 ft 120 m300 ft 90 m260 ft 80 m170 ft 50 m86 ft 26 m43 ft 13 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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
Prospect Park sits at about 180 ft (55 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
180 ft 55 m
most residents: 130–220 ft
Lowest
43 ft 13 m
on the southeast side
Highest
390 ft 120 m
on the north side
Average
210 ft 65 m
all land inside borough limits
Prospect Park spans about 347 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 | 180 ft55 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the north side | 390 ft120 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the southeast side | 43 ft13 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Prospect Park | 240 ft70 m |
| Airport (CDW) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.7 mi southwest of the borough limits | 172 ft52 m |
| Average of all land | 210 ft65 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States
- Population
- 6,382 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.5 sq mi
- Density
- 13,725 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.9370° N, 74.1743° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Passaic River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Essex County (CDW) 172 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 07508
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- William Paterson University of New Jersey510 ft
- North Haledon390 ft
- Preakness290 ft
- Woodland Park260 ft
- Totowa200 ft
- Prospect Park180 ft
- Haledon170 ft
- Hawthorne120 ft
- Paterson100 ft
- Glen Rock91 ft
- Fair Lawn69 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New Jersey275th highest of 941
- Towns in Passaic County21st highest of 27
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Cecchino881 ft
- Campgaw Mountain740 ft
- Packanack Mountain, Passaic County510 ft
- Packanack Mountain, Passaic County480 ft
- Toms Point220 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.