South Bound Brook, NJ Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation
81 ft 25 m64 ft 20 m56 ft 17 m40 ft 12 m23 ft 7 m15 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.
- Borough area
- Fades everything outside the official borough limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
South Bound Brook sits at about 48 ft (15 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
48 ft 15 m
most residents: 34–70 ft
Lowest
15 ft 5 m
on the northeast side
Highest
81 ft 25 m
on the west side
Average
47 ft 14 m
all land inside borough limits
South Bound Brook spans about 66 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 | 48 ft15 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the west side | 81 ft25 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the northeast side | 15 ft5 m |
| Town center USGS map point for South Bound Brook | 56 ft17 m |
| Airport (47N) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.6 mi southwest of the borough limits | 86 ft26 m |
| Average of all land | 47 ft14 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.1 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States
- Population
- 4,965 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.6 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 7,698 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.5534° N, 74.5315° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Central Jersey Regional (47N) 86 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 08880
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Martinsville300 ft
- Middlebush110 ft
- Weston84 ft
- Franklin Center79 ft
- Finderne79 ft
- Piscataway Township76 ft
- Manville53 ft
- South Bound Brook48 ft
- Middlesex46 ft
- Bound Brook45 ft
- Zarephath41 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New Jersey670th highest of 941
- Towns in Somerset County55th highest of 57
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mine Mountain850 ft
- Blachleys Hill690 ft
- Sourland Mountain570 ft
- Tenmile Run Mountain320 ft
- Bunker Hill190 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.