Totowa, NJ Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
480 ft 145 m390 ft 120 m340 ft 105 m250 ft 75 m160 ft 50 m120 ft 35 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 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
Totowa sits at about 200 ft (60 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
200 ft 60 m
most residents: 130–330 ft
Lowest
120 ft 35 m
on the southeast side
Highest
480 ft 145 m
on the north side
Average
220 ft 65 m
all land inside borough limits
Totowa spans about 360 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 | 200 ft60 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the north side | 480 ft145 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the southeast side | 120 ft35 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Totowa | 190 ft60 m |
| Airport (EWR) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 13 mi south of the borough limits | 18 ft5 m |
| Average of all land | 220 ft65 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.8 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States
- Population
- 11,064 2024 est.
- Land area
- 4.0 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 2,766 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.9051° N, 74.2099° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Passaic River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Newark Liberty International (EWR) 18 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 07512
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- William Paterson University of New Jersey510 ft
- Montclair State University380 ft
- Great Notch330 ft
- Preakness290 ft
- Woodland Park260 ft
- Totowa200 ft
- Little Falls Township200 ft
- Prospect Park180 ft
- Haledon170 ft
- Singac170 ft
- Paterson100 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New Jersey252nd highest of 941
- Towns in Passaic County19th highest of 27
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Cecchino881 ft
- Stony Hill, Essex County640 ft
- Packanack Mountain, Passaic County480 ft
- Towackhow Mountain450 ft
- Toms Point220 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.