Franklin, MO Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
710 ft 215 m680 ft 205 m660 ft 200 m630 ft 195 m600 ft 185 m590 ft 180 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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 600 ft (180 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
600 ft 180 m
most residents: 600–690 ft
Lowest
590 ft 180 m
on the southeast side
Highest
710 ft 215 m
on the west side
Average
620 ft 190 m
all land inside city limits
Franklin spans about 120 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 | 600 ft180 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 710 ft215 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 590 ft180 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Franklin | 600 ft180 m |
| Airport (VER) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.5 mi southeast of the city limits | 715 ft218 m |
| Average of all land | 620 ft190 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.6 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Howard County, Missouri, United States
- Population
- 70 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.2 sq mi
- Density
- 303 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.0117° N, 92.7532° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Jesse Viertel Memorial (VER) 715 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 65250
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Pilot Grove840 ft
- Arrow Rock710 ft
- Fayette690 ft
- Boonville680 ft
- Nelson660 ft
- Windsor Place650 ft
- New Franklin640 ft
- Blackwater630 ft
- Rocheport610 ft
- Franklin600 ft
- Wooldridge580 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Missouri1,089th highest of 1,352
- Towns in Howard Countylowest of 5
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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.