Franklin County, ID Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
9,470 ft 2,890 m8,210 ft 2,505 m7,580 ft 2,310 m6,320 ft 1,930 m5,060 ft 1,545 m4,430 ft 1,350 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 5,830 ft (1,775 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 4,430 ft on the south side to 9,470 ft on the southeast side.
Average elevation
5,830 ft 1,775 m
all land inside the county
Highest
9,470 ft 2,890 m
on the southeast side
Lowest
4,430 ft 1,350 m
on the south side
Franklin County spans about 5,040 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 | 5,830 ft1,775 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 9,470 ft2,890 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the south side | 4,430 ft1,350 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
26 mi west to east through Preston.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Idaho, United States
- Population
- 15,638 2024 est.
- Land area
- 663.1 sq mi + 4.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 24 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform regions
- Basin and Range 69%, Middle Rocky Mountains 31%
- Drains to
- Great Salt Lake basin (does not reach the sea)
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Bear Lake County6,860 ft
- Caribou County6,520 ft
- Cache County, UT6,310 ft
- Franklin County5,830 ft
- Bannock County5,690 ft
- Oneida County5,520 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Idaho13th highest of 44
- Counties in the United States121st highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Wilderness Peak9,460 ft
- Old Baldy Peak8,350 ft
- Weston Peak8,170 ft
- Thatcher Hill7,960 ft
- Buck Peak, Franklin County7,570 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.