Rutgers University-Busch Campus, NJ Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
110 ft 35 m88 ft 27 m76 ft 23 m52 ft 16 m28 ft 8 m16 ft 5 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Rutgers University-Busch Campus sits at about 100 ft (30 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
100 ft 30 m
most residents: 72–110 ft
Lowest
16 ft 5 m
on the south side
Highest
110 ft 35 m
on the northwest side
Average
81 ft 25 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Rutgers University-Busch Campus spans about 94 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 | 100 ft30 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 110 ft35 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 16 ft5 m |
| Airport (47N) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.8 mi west of the CDP boundary | 86 ft26 m |
| Average of all land | 81 ft25 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.1 mi south to north through the middle of Rutgers University-Busch Campus.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States
- Population
- 4,586 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.2 sq mi
- Density
- 3,750 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.5232° N, 74.4607° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Central Jersey Regional (47N) 86 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 08854
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Voorhees120 ft
- Clyde120 ft
- Rutgers University-Livingston Campus120 ft
- Rutgers University-Busch Campus100 ft
- Edison Township100 ft
- Franklin Township98 ft
- Somerset88 ft
- East Franklin85 ft
- Piscataway Township76 ft
- Highland Park73 ft
- New Brunswick73 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New Jersey421st highest of 941
- Towns in Middlesex County27th highest of 61
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Sourland Mountain570 ft
- Pheasant Hill450 ft
- Beacon Hill370 ft
- Tenmile Run Mountain320 ft
- Bunker Hill190 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Rutgers University-Busch Campus is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.