Elevation of Wilmington, Delaware, United States of America

Wilmington, Delaware, United States of America is 30 m (98 ft) above sea level.

Wilmington's height from sea level is 30 metres, or 98 feet. GeoNames reads 37 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 28 m.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 110 m

Mean 34 m across the 9 km square centred on the town, 110 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

733rd of 1,000

among the towns of United States of America with a reading.

Nearest town

39.9 km to the NE, at 34 m, 4 m higher.

Cross-section through Wilmington

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.4 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Wilmington; the vertical scale is the same on both.

131-10WE25.4 km
West to east: from 70 m at 13 km west to 8 m at 13 km east.
131-10NS25.4 km
North to south: from 119 m at 13 km north to 8 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 53 km around Wilmington, 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 Wilmington

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Philadelphia (Guyana) 39.9 kmNE 34 m (112 ft) +4 m
Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) 39.9 kmNE 34 m (112 ft) +4 m

Peaks and passes near Wilmington

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

Where Wilmington is

Latitude 39.7458333, longitude -75.5466667. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Wilmington elevation: 30 m (98 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 Wilmington'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 37 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.