Elevation of Kearny, New Jersey, United States of America
Kearny, New Jersey, United States of America is 37 m (121 ft) above sea level.
Kearny's height from sea level is 37 metres, or 121 feet. GeoNames reads 35 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 2 m.
Ground within 5 km
Mean 19 m across the 9 km square centred on the town, 49 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Rank by elevation
among the towns of New Jersey, and 704th of 1,000 in United States of America.
Cross-section through Kearny
Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Kearny; the vertical scale is the same on both.

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 Kearny
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Newark | 4.3 km | SW | 20 m (66 ft) | −17 m |
| East Orange | 5 km | W | 49 m (161 ft) | +12 m |
| Jersey City | 7.3 km | SE | 9 m (30 ft) | −28 m |
| Hoboken | 9.9 km | E | 11 m (36 ft) | −26 m |
| Passaic | 9.9 km | N | 38 m (125 ft) | +1 m |
Peaks and passes near Kearny
- High Mountain, peak at 268 m (879 ft), 22.9 km to the N — 231 m above the town.
- Preakness Mountain, peak at 260 m (853 ft), 24.3 km to the N — 223 m above the town.
- Mount Cecchino, peak at 230 m (755 ft), 22.3 km to the N — 193 m above the town.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where Kearny is
Latitude 40.7684342, longitude -74.1454214. 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 Kearny'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 35 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. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.