Vernon Township, NJ Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,490 ft 455 m1,210 ft 370 m1,070 ft 325 m800 ft 245 m520 ft 160 m380 ft 115 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- Township area
- Fades everything outside the official township boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Vernon Township sits at about 880 ft (270 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
880 ft 270 m
most residents: 470–1,300 ft
Lowest
380 ft 115 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,490 ft 455 m
on the south side
Average
890 ft 270 m
all land inside township boundaries
Vernon Township spans about 1,110 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 | 880 ft270 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 1,490 ft455 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 380 ft115 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Vernon Township | 560 ft170 m |
| Airport (FWN) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.4 mi west of the township boundaries | 422 ft129 m |
| Average of all land | 890 ft270 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
11 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Sussex County, New Jersey, United States
- Population
- 22,879 2024 est.
- Land area
- 67.5 sq mi + 2.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 339 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.1984° N, 74.4832° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Wallkill River → Hudson River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Sussex (FWN) 422 ft
- ZIP codes 7
- 07418 07419 07421 07422 07460 07461 07462
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Highland Lakes1,280 ft
- Upper Greenwood Lake1,140 ft
- Vernon Township880 ft
- Vernon Center650 ft
- Hardyston Township630 ft
- Franklin620 ft
- Warwick, NY590 ft
- Village of Warwick, NY560 ft
- Hamburg500 ft
- Sussex470 ft
- Vernon Valley440 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New Jersey20th highest of 941
- Towns in Sussex County6th highest of 32
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- North Knob2,692 ft
- Bearfort Mountain1,470 ft
- Wawayanda Mountain1,470 ft
- Maple Hill1,260 ft
- Pochuck Mountain1,200 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).
- 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.