Wharton, NJ Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
920 ft 280 m840 ft 255 m800 ft 240 m710 ft 220 m630 ft 195 m590 ft 180 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
Wharton 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: 640–750 ft
Lowest
590 ft 180 m
on the east side
Highest
920 ft 280 m
on the west side
Average
690 ft 210 m
all land inside borough limits
Wharton 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 | 670 ft205 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the west side | 920 ft280 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the east side | 590 ft180 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Wharton | 690 ft210 m |
| Average of all land | 690 ft210 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.3 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Morris County, New Jersey, United States
- Population
- 7,444 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.1 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 3,581 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.8932° N, 74.5818° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Passaic River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 07885
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Mount Arlington990 ft
- Randolph Township880 ft
- Mine Hill Township840 ft
- Mount Hope820 ft
- Succasunna730 ft
- Kenvil720 ft
- Lower Berkshire Valley710 ft
- Wharton670 ft
- Dover620 ft
- Victory Gardens610 ft
- Rockaway590 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New Jersey59th highest of 941
- Towns in Morris County28th highest of 70
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Picatinny Peak1,210 ft
- Mase Mountain1,210 ft
- Mount Arlington1,200 ft
- Randall Hill980 ft
- Snake Hill810 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.