Franklin Township, Clare County, MI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,330 ft 405 m1,230 ft 375 m1,180 ft 360 m1,080 ft 330 m980 ft 300 m930 ft 285 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.
- Township area
- Fades everything outside the official township boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Franklin Township, Clare County sits at about 1,150 ft (350 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,150 ft 350 m
most residents: 1,020–1,220 ft
Lowest
930 ft 285 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,330 ft 405 m
on the west side
Average
1,140 ft 345 m
all land inside township boundaries
Franklin Township, Clare County spans about 400 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 | 1,150 ft350 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 1,330 ft405 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 930 ft285 m |
| Average of all land | 1,140 ft345 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.1 mi west to east through the middle of Franklin Township, Clare County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Clare County, Michigan, United States
- Population
- 742 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.3 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 21 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.1082° N, 84.6662° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Cedar River → Tittabawassee River
- ZIP codes 2
- 48624 48625
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Frost Township1,180 ft
- Harrison1,160 ft
- Hayes Township1,150 ft
- Franklin Township, Clare County1,150 ft
- Summerfield Township, Clare County1,100 ft
- Nester Township1,100 ft
- Hamilton Township1,020 ft
- Sherman Township, Gladwin County990 ft
- Arthur Township880 ft
- Sage Township860 ft
- Butman Township860 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Michigan160th highest of 1,985
- Towns in Clare County5th highest of 19
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Emery Hill1,365 ft
- Blue Mountain1,250 ft
- McWatty Knoll1,110 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, ZIP code areas); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.