Franklinville, NC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
730 ft 225 m660 ft 200 m620 ft 190 m550 ft 165 m470 ft 145 m440 ft 135 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Franklinville sits at about 520 ft (160 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
520 ft 160 m
most residents: 490–560 ft
Lowest
440 ft 135 m
on the southeast side
Highest
730 ft 225 m
on the southwest side
Average
510 ft 155 m
all land inside town limits
Franklinville spans about 290 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 | 520 ft160 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the southwest side | 730 ft225 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the southeast side | 440 ft135 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Franklinville | 470 ft145 m |
| Average of all land | 510 ft155 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.9 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Randolph County, North Carolina, United States
- Population
- 1,245 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.7 sq mi
- Density
- 735 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.7437° N, 79.6923° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Deep River → Cape Fear River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 27248
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Pleasant Garden800 ft
- Asheboro770 ft
- Liberty760 ft
- Forest Oaks740 ft
- Seagrove720 ft
- Staley700 ft
- Randleman700 ft
- Siler City610 ft
- Franklinville520 ft
- Ramseur520 ft
- Bennett480 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Carolina325th highest of 782
- Towns in Randolph County8th highest of 9
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Moores Knob2,580 ft
- Oakie Mountain1,030 ft
- Horse Mountain, Randolph County960 ft
- Fox Mountain, Randolph County820 ft
- Iron Mountain, Randolph County750 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the town 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 town 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.