Franklin Township, York County, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,420 ft 430 m1,180 ft 360 m1,070 ft 325 m830 ft 255 m600 ft 185 m480 ft 145 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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, York County sits at about 660 ft (200 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
660 ft 200 m
most residents: 540–1,220 ft
Lowest
480 ft 145 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,420 ft 430 m
on the northwest side
Average
710 ft 215 m
all land inside township boundaries
Franklin Township, York County spans about 940 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 | 660 ft200 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 1,420 ft430 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 480 ft145 m |
| Average of all land | 710 ft215 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
5.5 mi south to north through the middle of Franklin Township, York County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in York County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 5,186 2024 est.
- Land area
- 19.2 sq mi
- Density
- 270 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.0704° N, 77.0695° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 2
- 17019 17372
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Franklintown700 ft
- Huntington Township690 ft
- Franklin Township, York County660 ft
- York Springs620 ft
- Dillsburg590 ft
- Carroll Township570 ft
- Latimore Township550 ft
- Boiling Springs530 ft
- Lake Meade530 ft
- Monroe Township490 ft
- Washington Township, York County480 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,458th highest of 3,545
- Towns in York County31st highest of 91
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Big Mountain2,460 ft
- Rays Hill2,440 ft
- Greenlee Mountain2,420 ft
- The Winehead2,363 ft
- Quirauk Mountain2,140 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 480 ft at 40.0321° N, 77.0490° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.