Franklin, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
790 ft 240 m730 ft 225 m710 ft 215 m650 ft 200 m600 ft 180 m570 ft 175 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Franklin sits at about 720 ft (220 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
720 ft 220 m
most residents: 670–750 ft
Lowest
570 ft 175 m
on the northeast side
Highest
790 ft 240 m
on the south side
Average
700 ft 215 m
all land inside city limits
Franklin 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 | 720 ft220 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 790 ft240 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 570 ft175 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Franklin | 710 ft215 m |
| Average of all land | 700 ft215 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.6 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Simpson County, Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 10,524 2024 est.
- Land area
- 16.2 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 650 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 36.7223° N, 86.5772° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Drains to
- Green River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 42134
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- New Deal, TN880 ft
- Oak Grove, Sumner County, TN860 ft
- Portland, TN800 ft
- Mitchellville, TN760 ft
- Fairfield, TN750 ft
- Franklin720 ft
- Cross Plains, TN720 ft
- Orlinda, TN710 ft
- Auburn650 ft
- Woodburn630 ft
- Plano610 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kentucky221st highest of 552
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Pilot Knob, Simpson County930 ft
- Rainbow Rock Knob870 ft
- Buzzard Knob, Logan County840 ft
- Briggs Hill790 ft
- Prospect Hill700 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city limits, 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 city limits (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, ZIP code areas); BTS time zones. All public domain.