Franklin County, KY Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

960 ft 295 m840 ft 255 m770 ft 235 m650 ft 200 m520 ft 160 m460 ft 140 m

Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
County area: Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).

Elevation Data

Franklin County averages about 740 ft (225 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 460 ft on the north side to 960 ft on the southwest side.

Average elevation

740 ft 225 m

all land inside the county

Highest

960 ft 295 m

on the southwest side

Lowest

460 ft 140 m

on the north side

Franklin County spans about 500 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	740 ft225 m
Highest point Inside the county, on the southwest side	960 ft295 m
Lowest point Inside the county, on the north side	460 ft140 m

Elevation profile, south to north

17 mi south to north through Frankfort.

Topographic Map

Location: County in Kentucky, United States
Population: 52,442 2024 est.
Land area: 207.9 sq mi + 4.1 sq mi water
Density: 252 per sq mi
Time zone: Eastern UTC−5 / −4
Landform region: Interior Low Plateaus
Drains to: Gulf of America

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average

Scott County880 ft
Woodford County830 ft
Shelby County790 ft
Henry County780 ft
Owen County780 ft
Anderson County780 ft
Franklin County740 ft

Rankings by average elevation

Counties in Kentucky73rd highest of 119
Counties in the United States1,935th highest of 3,151

Peaks and hills highest inside

Indian Gap Hill890 ft
The Backbone860 ft
Bald Knob, Franklin County850 ft
Hickman Hill850 ft
Poplar Hill825 ft

The one town in Franklin County

Frankfort750 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.