Riverdale, NJ Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
690 ft 210 m560 ft 170 m500 ft 150 m370 ft 115 m240 ft 75 m180 ft 55 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
Riverdale sits at about 220 ft (70 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
220 ft 70 m
most residents: 190–440 ft
Lowest
180 ft 55 m
on the south side
Highest
690 ft 210 m
on the southwest side
Average
320 ft 95 m
all land inside borough limits
Riverdale spans about 510 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 | 220 ft70 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the southwest side | 690 ft210 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the south side | 180 ft55 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Riverdale | 220 ft65 m |
| Airport (CDW) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.5 mi south of the borough limits | 172 ft52 m |
| Average of all land | 320 ft95 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.8 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Morris County, New Jersey, United States
- Population
- 4,142 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.0 sq mi
- Density
- 2,044 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.9940° N, 74.3035° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Passaic River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Essex County (CDW) 172 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 07457
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Kinnelon780 ft
- Butler480 ft
- Oakland400 ft
- Bloomingdale380 ft
- Pines Lake330 ft
- Packanack Lake260 ft
- Wanaque260 ft
- Riverdale220 ft
- Pompton Lakes210 ft
- Pompton Plains190 ft
- Pequannock Township190 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New Jersey240th highest of 941
- Towns in Morris County64th highest of 70
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Torne Mountain990 ft
- Stony Brook Mountains950 ft
- Kakeout Mountain910 ft
- Federal Hill610 ft
- Packanack Mountain, Passaic County510 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.