Elevation of Above Rocks, Saint Catherine, Jamaica

Above Rocks, Saint Catherine, Jamaica is 250 m (820 ft) above sea level.

Above Rocks's height from sea level is 250 metres, or 820 feet. GeoNames reads 290 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

200 m – 679 m

Mean 384 m across the 10 km square centred on the town, 479 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

2nd of 11

among the towns of Saint Catherine, and 31st of 103 in Jamaica.

Nearest town

Stony Hill

9.6 km to the SE, at 311 m, 61 m higher.

Cross-section through Above Rocks

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Above Rocks; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 94 m at 14 km west to 1,113 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 171 m at 14 km north to 9 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 59 km around Above Rocks, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 59 km across, north up; the ring marks the town.

Shading is a north-west light over the grid's own slopes. Colour follows elevation: sea level and below, 0–200 m, 500 m, 1,000 m, 2,000 m, 3,500 m, 5,000 m and above.

Towns near Above Rocks

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Stony Hill (Saint Andrew)	9.6 km	SE	311 m (1,020 ft)	+61 m
Riversdale	11 km	NW	184 m (604 ft)	−66 m
Constant Spring (Saint Andrew)	11.3 km	SE	186 m (610 ft)	−64 m
Bog Walk	13.8 km	W	87 m (285 ft)	−163 m
Half Way Tree (Saint Andrew)	14.8 km	SE	71 m (233 ft)	−179 m

Peaks and passes near Above Rocks

Markham Hill, peak at 1,820 m (5,971 ft), 24.1 km to the E — 1,570 m above the town.
Mount Horeb, peak at 1,360 m (4,462 ft), 17.5 km to the E — 1,110 m above the town.
Mount Dorothy, peak at 1,320 m (4,331 ft), 16.6 km to the E — 1,070 m above the town.

Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.

Where Above Rocks is

Latitude 18.1088889, longitude -76.8772222. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Above Rocks's recorded coordinates. It is the height of the ground in that cell, not of any building; a town on a slope spans several cells, and the range above says how much that matters here. GeoNames' reading of 290 m comes from a finer 90 m SRTM grid at the point it records for the town, which may sit a few hundred metres from ours; the two agreeing to within a few metres is the usual case on flat ground, and a larger gap means the ground is steep.