Franklin Township, Luzerne County, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,550 ft 470 m1,370 ft 420 m1,280 ft 390 m1,110 ft 340 m940 ft 285 m850 ft 260 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, Luzerne County sits at about 1,280 ft (390 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,280 ft 390 m
most residents: 1,130–1,400 ft
Lowest
850 ft 260 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,550 ft 470 m
on the west side
Average
1,220 ft 370 m
all land inside township boundaries
Franklin Township, Luzerne 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 | 1,280 ft390 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 1,550 ft470 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 850 ft260 m |
| Airport (AVP) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.1 mi east of the township boundaries | 962 ft293 m |
| Average of all land | 1,220 ft370 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.7 mi south to north through the middle of Franklin Township, Luzerne County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 1,765 2024 est.
- Land area
- 12.4 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 142 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.3783° N, 75.8964° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International (AVP) 962 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 18612 18643 18644
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Ransom Township1,290 ft
- Franklin Township, Luzerne County1,280 ft
- Dallas Township1,250 ft
- Misericordia University1,240 ft
- Dallas1,210 ft
- Kingston Township1,170 ft
- Northmoreland Township1,130 ft
- Shavertown1,120 ft
- Exeter Township, Luzerne County1,070 ft
- Upper Exeter780 ft
- Exeter Township, Wyoming County650 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania892nd highest of 3,545
- Towns in Luzerne County23rd highest of 102
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- North Knob2,692 ft
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- Miller Mountain2,200 ft
- Peterson Mountain1,590 ft
- Mount Lookout1,490 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.