Franklin County, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,190 ft 365 m1,100 ft 335 m1,060 ft 325 m970 ft 295 m890 ft 270 m840 ft 255 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 990 ft (300 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 840 ft on the east side to 1,190 ft on the southwest side.
Average elevation
990 ft 300 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,190 ft 365 m
on the southwest side
Lowest
840 ft 255 m
on the east side
Franklin County spans about 350 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 | 990 ft300 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the southwest side | 1,190 ft365 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the east side | 840 ft255 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
24 mi south to north through Ottawa.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Kansas, United States
- Population
- 26,273 2024 est.
- Land area
- 571.8 sq mi + 5.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 46 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Coffey County1,100 ft
- Osage County1,090 ft
- Anderson County1,040 ft
- Franklin County990 ft
- Douglas County970 ft
- Miami County970 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Kansas89th highest of 104
- Counties in the United States1,414th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Chippewa Hills1,150 ft
- Fowler Hill1,040 ft
All 25 towns in Franklin County by typical elevation
- Williamsburg1,140 ft
- Williamsburg Township1,140 ft
- Greenwood Township1,080 ft
- Appanoose Township1,070 ft
- Wellsville1,040 ft
- Franklin Township1,040 ft
- Homewood Township1,040 ft
- Richmond1,030 ft
- Richmond Township1,020 ft
- Lincoln Township, Franklin County1,000 ft
- Centropolis Township1,000 ft
- Cutler Township990 ft
- Hayes Township970 ft
- Ohio Township, Franklin County970 ft
- Princeton970 ft
- Peoria Township970 ft
- Pomona Township970 ft
- Pomona960 ft
- Centropolis950 ft
- Ottawa Township940 ft
- Harrison Township940 ft
- Ottawa920 ft
- Pottawatomie Township, Franklin County920 ft
- Rantoul900 ft
- Lane890 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.