Franklin Township, Grant County, IN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
880 ft 265 m860 ft 265 m860 ft 260 m850 ft 260 m830 ft 255 m830 ft 255 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 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.
- Township area
- Fades everything outside the official township boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Franklin Township, Grant County sits at about 850 ft (260 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
850 ft 260 m
most residents: 840–850 ft
Lowest
830 ft 255 m
near the middle
Highest
880 ft 265 m
on the south side
Average
850 ft 260 m
all land inside township boundaries
Franklin Township, Grant County spans about 50 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 | 850 ft260 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 880 ft265 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, near the middle | 830 ft255 m |
| Airport (MZZ) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 859 ft262 m |
| Average of all land | 850 ft260 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Grant County, Indiana, United States
- Population
- 7,067 2024 est.
- Land area
- 36.1 sq mi
- Density
- 196 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.5468° N, 85.6942° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Mississinewa River → Wabash River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Marion Municipal - Mckinney Field (MZZ) 859 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Herbst860 ft
- Washington Township, Grant County860 ft
- Gas City850 ft
- Mill Township850 ft
- Jonesboro850 ft
- Franklin Township, Grant County850 ft
- Sweetser850 ft
- Marion840 ft
- Pleasant Township, Grant County840 ft
- Center Township, Grant County840 ft
- Jalapa820 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Indiana574th highest of 1,977
- Towns in Grant County22nd highest of 29
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, 820 ft at 40.5446° N, 85.6743° 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.