Franklin Township, IN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
900 ft 275 m870 ft 265 m850 ft 260 m810 ft 245 m770 ft 235 m760 ft 230 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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.
- Township area
- Fades everything outside the official township boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Franklin Township sits at about 840 ft (260 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
840 ft 260 m
most residents: 810–860 ft
Lowest
760 ft 230 m
on the southeast side
Highest
900 ft 275 m
on the south side
Average
830 ft 250 m
all land inside township boundaries
Franklin Township spans about 140 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where its people live, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 840 ft260 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 900 ft275 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 760 ft230 m |
| Airport (IND) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 11 mi west of the township boundaries | 796 ft243 m |
| Average of all land | 830 ft250 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.9 mi west to east through the middle of Franklin Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Marion County, Indiana, United States
- Population
- 66,724 2024 est.
- Land area
- 42.2 sq mi
- Density
- 1,582 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.6784° N, 86.0386° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- White River → Wabash River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Indianapolis International (IND) 796 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Franklin Township840 ft
- Warren Park830 ft
- Beech Grove800 ft
- Pleasant Township800 ft
- Greenwood800 ft
- Clark Township800 ft
- Pleasant View800 ft
- Moral Township800 ft
- Southport790 ft
- Homecroft760 ft
- Perry Township750 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Indiana584th highest of 1,977
- Towns in Marion County3rd highest of 24
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Polk Hill, Johnson County870 ft
- Kelly Hill860 ft
- Donalds Knoll850 ft
- Sally Doty Hill830 ft
- Mann Hill830 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the township boundaries, at its USGS 3DEP height, weighted by the people who live there. Half of residents live higher, half lower.
- Lowest, highest, average: USGS 3DEP bare-earth heights on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid, land only, inside the Census township boundaries (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 750 ft at 39.6421° N, 85.9549° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- Nearby Places: nearby towns and rankings use each town's typical elevation, so every town is compared like for like. Rankings count every city, town, township and census-designated place, including places inside a town. Peaks and hills: the nearest summits with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence within 62 mi (100 km), then federal (GNIS) summits within 16 mi (25 km) 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).
- 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 (FAA airport elevation, 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 (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.