Borough of Franklin, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,700 ft 520 m1,570 ft 480 m1,510 ft 460 m1,380 ft 420 m1,250 ft 380 m1,190 ft 360 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.
- Borough area
- Fades everything outside the official borough limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Borough of Franklin sits at about 1,290 ft (395 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,290 ft 395 m
most residents: 1,260–1,410 ft
Lowest
1,190 ft 360 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,700 ft 520 m
at the foot of the Laurel Hill
Average
1,310 ft 400 m
all land inside borough limits
Borough of Franklin spans about 510 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 | 1,290 ft395 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, at the foot of the Laurel Hill | 1,700 ft520 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the southwest side | 1,190 ft360 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Borough of Franklin | 1,250 ft380 m |
| Airport (JST) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.8 mi southeast of the borough limits | 2,284 ft696 m |
| Average of all land | 1,310 ft400 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.6 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 267 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.6 sq mi
- Density
- 447 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.3423° N, 78.8847° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Conemaugh River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- John Murtha Johnstown/Cambria County (JST) 2,284 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 15909
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Conemaugh Township, Cambria County1,850 ft
- Daisytown1,780 ft
- Stonycreek Township1,670 ft
- East Taylor Township1,660 ft
- Oakland, Cambria County1,660 ft
- Parkhill1,630 ft
- Middle Taylor Township1,580 ft
- East Conemaugh1,310 ft
- Borough of Franklin1,290 ft
- Dale1,270 ft
- Johnstown1,230 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania859th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Cambria County86th highest of 89
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Martin Hill2,770 ft
- Wills Mountain2,770 ft
- Brush Mountain2,580 ft
- Loop Mountain2,500 ft
- Rays Hill2,440 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.