Franklin Township, Putnam County, IN Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

940 ft 285 m890 ft 270 m860 ft 260 m800 ft 245 m750 ft 230 m720 ft 220 m

Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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, Putnam 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: 780–890 ft

Lowest

720 ft 220 m

on the west side

Highest

940 ft 285 m

on the south side

Average

830 ft 255 m

all land inside township boundaries

Franklin Township, Putnam County spans about 220 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	940 ft285 m
Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side	720 ft220 m
Average of all land	830 ft255 m

Elevation profile, south to north

6.1 mi south to north through the middle of Franklin Township, Putnam County.

Topographic Map

Location: Township in Putnam County, Indiana, United States
Population: 1,683 2024 est.
Land area: 34.4 sq mi
Density: 49 per sq mi
Coordinates: 39.8278° N, 86.8185° W
Time zone: Eastern UTC−5 / −4
Landform region: Central Lowland
Drains to: Big Raccoon Creek → Wabash River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in Indiana582nd highest of 1,977
Towns in Putnam County8th highest of 23

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

Hadden Hill910 ft
Bald Hill, Putnam County870 ft
Hughes Hill830 ft
Truax Hill820 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).
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); BTS time zones. All public domain.