Franklin County, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
560 ft 170 m460 ft 140 m410 ft 125 m300 ft 95 m200 ft 60 m150 ft 45 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Franklin County averages about 310 ft (95 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 150 ft on the northeast side to 560 ft on the west side.
Average elevation
310 ft 95 m
all land inside the county
Highest
560 ft 170 m
on the west side
Lowest
150 ft 45 m
on the northeast side
Franklin County spans about 410 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 | 310 ft95 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the west side | 560 ft170 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northeast side | 150 ft45 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
26 mi west to east through Louisburg.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 79,771 2024 est.
- Land area
- 491.9 sq mi + 2.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 162 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Granville County430 ft
- Vance County400 ft
- Wake County330 ft
- Franklin County310 ft
- Warren County310 ft
- Nash County190 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in North Carolina58th highest of 100
- Counties in the United States2,602nd highest of 3,151
All 7 towns in Franklin County by typical elevation
- Franklinton410 ft
- Youngsville410 ft
- Wake Forest partly320 ft
- Bunn280 ft
- Centerville270 ft
- Louisburg250 ft
- Lake Royale230 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.