Franklin Township, Carbon County, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,140 ft 345 m960 ft 295 m880 ft 265 m700 ft 215 m530 ft 160 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.
- Township area
- Fades everything outside the official township boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Franklin Township, Carbon County sits at about 730 ft (220 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
730 ft 220 m
most residents: 520–940 ft
Lowest
440 ft 135 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,140 ft 345 m
at the foot of the Indian Hills
Average
770 ft 235 m
all land inside township boundaries
Franklin Township, Carbon County spans about 700 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 | 730 ft220 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, at the foot of the Indian Hills | 1,140 ft345 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 440 ft135 m |
| Airport (22N) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.5 mi southwest of the township boundaries | 534 ft163 m |
| Average of all land | 770 ft235 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.2 mi south to north through the middle of Franklin Township, Carbon County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Carbon County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 4,423 2024 est.
- Land area
- 15.2 sq mi + 0.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 292 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.8512° N, 75.6670° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Delaware River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Jake Arner Memorial (22N) 534 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 18071 18235
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Towamensing Township940 ft
- Jim Thorpe790 ft
- Mahoning Township, Carbon County760 ft
- Franklin Township, Carbon County730 ft
- Parryville720 ft
- Lower Towamensing Township710 ft
- Lehighton570 ft
- Weissport East560 ft
- Bowmanstown490 ft
- Weissport460 ft
- Palmerton440 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,300th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Carbon County21st highest of 28
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- North Knob2,692 ft
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- Miller Mountain2,200 ft
- Pocono Mountain1,710 ft
- Bear Mountain, Carbon County1,682 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the township boundaries, 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 township boundaries (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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.