Franklin Township, Erie County, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,430 ft 435 m1,290 ft 395 m1,220 ft 375 m1,080 ft 330 m940 ft 285 m870 ft 265 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, Erie County sits at about 1,260 ft (385 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,260 ft 385 m
most residents: 1,150–1,360 ft
Lowest
870 ft 265 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,430 ft 435 m
on the southeast side
Average
1,240 ft 380 m
all land inside township boundaries
Franklin Township, Erie County spans about 560 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 | 1,260 ft385 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 1,430 ft435 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 870 ft265 m |
| Airport (ERI) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.8 mi north of the township boundaries | 732 ft223 m |
| Average of all land | 1,240 ft380 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.2 mi west to east through the middle of Franklin Township, Erie County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Erie County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 1,485 2024 est.
- Land area
- 28.7 sq mi
- Density
- 52 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.9273° N, 80.2153° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Niagara River
- Airport
- Erie International/Tom Ridge Field (ERI) 732 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 16410 16412 16417 16426
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Washington Township, Erie County1,310 ft
- Franklin Township, Erie County1,260 ft
- Edinboro1,220 ft
- Elk Creek Township1,110 ft
- McKean Township1,080 ft
- McKean1,020 ft
- Cranesville920 ft
- Platea890 ft
- Girard Township790 ft
- Fairview Township, Erie County770 ft
- Girard770 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania927th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Erie County15th highest of 43
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Pleasant Hill, Crawford County1,630 ft
- Mackey Hill1,610 ft
- Gibson Hill1,550 ft
- Mount Pleasant1,510 ft
- Oak Hill, Erie County1,420 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. All public domain.