Sparta Township, NJ Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,380 ft 420 m1,160 ft 355 m1,050 ft 320 m840 ft 255 m620 ft 190 m510 ft 155 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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.
- Township area
- Fades everything outside the official township boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Sparta Township sits at about 900 ft (275 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
900 ft 275 m
most residents: 690–1,230 ft
Lowest
510 ft 155 m
on the north side
Highest
1,380 ft 420 m
on the northeast side
Average
900 ft 275 m
all land inside township boundaries
Sparta Township spans about 870 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 | 900 ft275 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 1,380 ft420 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side | 510 ft155 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Sparta Township | 740 ft225 m |
| Average of all land | 900 ft275 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.4 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Sussex County, New Jersey, United States
- Population
- 20,362 2024 est.
- Land area
- 36.7 sq mi + 2.0 sq mi water
- Density
- 554 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.0334° N, 74.6385° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Wallkill River → Hudson River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 07871
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Lake Hopatcong990 ft
- Jefferson Township930 ft
- Sparta Township900 ft
- Lake Mohawk850 ft
- Byram Township810 ft
- Andover Township670 ft
- Andover670 ft
- Ogdensburg670 ft
- Newton630 ft
- Franklin620 ft
- Lafayette Township600 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New Jersey16th highest of 941
- Towns in Sussex County4th highest of 32
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Bowling Green Mountain1,380 ft
- Mase Mountain1,210 ft
- Mount Paul, Morris County1,200 ft
- Lookout Mountain1,170 ft
- Sterling Hill830 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 420 ft at 41.0571° N, 74.6793° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.