Franklin, NJ Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
810 ft 250 m730 ft 225 m690 ft 210 m600 ft 185 m520 ft 160 m480 ft 145 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 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.
- Borough area
- Fades everything outside the official borough limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Franklin sits at about 620 ft (190 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
620 ft 190 m
most residents: 550–680 ft
Lowest
480 ft 145 m
on the north side
Highest
810 ft 250 m
at the foot of the Pimple Hills
Average
600 ft 180 m
all land inside borough limits
Franklin spans about 330 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 | 620 ft190 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, at the foot of the Pimple Hills | 810 ft250 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the north side | 480 ft145 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Franklin | 600 ft185 m |
| Airport (FWN) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.9 mi north of the borough limits | 422 ft129 m |
| Average of all land | 600 ft180 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.4 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Sussex County, New Jersey, United States
- Population
- 5,059 2024 est.
- Land area
- 4.4 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,161 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.1220° N, 74.5804° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Wallkill River → Hudson River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Sussex (FWN) 422 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 07416
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Highland Lakes1,280 ft
- Sparta Township900 ft
- Oak Ridge830 ft
- Ogdensburg670 ft
- Vernon Center650 ft
- Hardyston Township630 ft
- Franklin620 ft
- Lafayette Township600 ft
- Ross Corner510 ft
- Hamburg500 ft
- Sussex470 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New Jersey69th highest of 941
- Towns in Sussex County24th highest of 32
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Wawayanda Mountain1,470 ft
- Bowling Green Mountain1,380 ft
- Mount Paul, Morris County1,200 ft
- Pochuck Mountain1,200 ft
- Sterling Hill830 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the borough 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 borough 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.