Sussex, NJ Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
730 ft 220 m650 ft 195 m600 ft 185 m520 ft 160 m440 ft 135 m400 ft 120 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
Sussex sits at about 470 ft (145 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
470 ft 145 m
most residents: 420–510 ft
Lowest
400 ft 120 m
on the south side
Highest
730 ft 220 m
on the north side
Average
470 ft 145 m
all land inside borough limits
Sussex spans about 330 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 | 470 ft145 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the north side | 730 ft220 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the south side | 400 ft120 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Sussex | 440 ft135 m |
| Airport (FWN) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.6 mi southwest of the borough limits | 422 ft129 m |
| Average of all land | 470 ft145 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.9 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Sussex County, New Jersey, United States
- Population
- 2,072 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.6 sq mi
- Density
- 3,494 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.2098° N, 74.6077° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Wallkill River → Hudson River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Sussex (FWN) 422 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 07461
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Highland Lakes1,280 ft
- Vernon Township880 ft
- Frankford Township810 ft
- Wantage Township670 ft
- Vernon Center650 ft
- Hardyston Township630 ft
- Franklin620 ft
- Unionville, NY580 ft
- Hamburg500 ft
- Sussex470 ft
- Vernon Valley440 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New Jersey115th highest of 941
- Towns in Sussex County31st highest of 32
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- North Knob2,692 ft
- High Point1,797 ft
- Sunrise Mountain1,653 ft
- Wawayanda Mountain1,470 ft
- Pochuck Mountain1,200 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.