Wantage Township, NJ Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation
1,800 ft 550 m1,440 ft 440 m1,270 ft 385 m910 ft 280 m560 ft 170 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
Wantage Township sits at about 670 ft (205 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
670 ft 205 m
most residents: 500–860 ft
Lowest
380 ft 115 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,800 ft 550 m
on Kittatinny Mountain
Average
700 ft 215 m
all land inside township boundaries
Wantage Township spans about 1,420 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 | 670 ft205 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on Kittatinny Mountain | 1,800 ft550 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 380 ft115 m |
| Airport (FWN) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 422 ft129 m |
| Average of all land | 700 ft215 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
7.4 mi west to east through the middle of Wantage Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Sussex County, New Jersey, United States
- Population
- 11,087 2024 est.
- Land area
- 66.8 sq mi + 0.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 166 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.2295° N, 74.6298° 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 2
- 07419 07461
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Vernon Township880 ft
- Frankford Township810 ft
- Wantage Township670 ft
- Vernon Center650 ft
- Hardyston Township630 ft
- Franklin620 ft
- Unionville, NY580 ft
- Branchville560 ft
- Hamburg500 ft
- Sussex470 ft
- Vernon Valley440 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New Jersey53rd highest of 941
- Towns in Sussex County15th highest of 32
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- North Knob2,692 ft
- High Point1,797 ft
- Sunrise Mountain1,653 ft
- Pochuck Mountain1,200 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).
- 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.