Franklin County, GA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
980 ft 300 m870 ft 265 m820 ft 250 m700 ft 215 m590 ft 180 m540 ft 165 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 750 ft (230 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 540 ft on the south side to 980 ft on the northwest side.
Average elevation
750 ft 230 m
all land inside the county
Highest
980 ft 300 m
on the northwest side
Lowest
540 ft 165 m
on the south side
Franklin County spans about 440 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 | 750 ft230 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 980 ft300 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the south side | 540 ft165 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
15 mi west to east through Royston.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Georgia, United States
- Population
- 25,208 2024 est.
- Land area
- 261.6 sq mi + 4.9 sq mi water
- Density
- 96 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Oconee County, SC1,130 ft
- Stephens County920 ft
- Banks County870 ft
- Hart County760 ft
- Franklin County750 ft
- Madison County710 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Georgia45th highest of 151
- Counties in the United States1,915th highest of 3,151
All 7 towns in Franklin County by typical elevation
- Canon880 ft
- Martin partly870 ft
- Royston860 ft
- Lavonia830 ft
- Franklin Springs790 ft
- Gumlog740 ft
- Carnesville720 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. 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.