Franklin County, AR Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,420 ft 735 m1,900 ft 580 m1,640 ft 500 m1,120 ft 340 m600 ft 180 m340 ft 105 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Franklin County averages about 840 ft (255 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 340 ft on the southeast side to 2,420 ft on Whiting Mountain.
Average elevation
840 ft 255 m
all land inside the county
Highest
2,420 ft 735 m
on Whiting Mountain
Lowest
340 ft 105 m
on the southeast side
Franklin County spans about 2,080 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 840 ft255 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Whiting Mountain (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 2,420 ft735 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 340 ft105 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
32 mi south to north through Ozark.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Arkansas, United States
- Population
- 17,586 2024 est.
- Land area
- 609.0 sq mi + 11.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 29 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform regions
- Ouachita 73%, Ozark Plateaus 27%
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Madison County1,660 ft
- Johnson County1,040 ft
- Crawford County930 ft
- Franklin County840 ft
- Logan County690 ft
- Sebastian County650 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Arkansas17th highest of 75
- Counties in the United States1,730th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Whiting Mountain, Franklin County2,420 ft
- Hare Mountain2,390 ft
- Potato Knob Mountain2,380 ft
- Fly Gap Mountain2,371 ft
- Pilot Knob, Franklin County2,360 ft
All 7 towns in Franklin County by typical elevation
- Wiederkehr Village680 ft
- Altus580 ft
- Charleston510 ft
- Branch490 ft
- Ozark480 ft
- Denning440 ft
- Alix390 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.