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

0 m – 49 m

Mean 19 m across the 9 km square centred on the town, 49 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

7th of 22

among the towns of New Jersey, and 704th of 1,000 in United States of America.

Nearest town

4.3 km to the SW, at 20 m, 17 m lower.

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.

181-14WE25.3 km
West to east: from 166 m at 13 km west to 49 m at 13 km east.
181-14NS25.3 km
North to south: from 31 m at 13 km north to 1 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 53 km around Kearny, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 53 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 Kearny

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Newark 4.3 kmSW 20 m (66 ft) −17 m
East Orange 5 kmW 49 m (161 ft) +12 m
Jersey City 7.3 kmSE 9 m (30 ft) −28 m
Hoboken 9.9 kmE 11 m (36 ft) −26 m
Passaic 9.9 kmN 38 m (125 ft) +1 m

Peaks and passes near Kearny

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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Kearny elevation: 37 m (121 ft) above sea level

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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.