Franklintown, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
730 ft 225 m700 ft 215 m690 ft 210 m660 ft 200 m630 ft 190 m610 ft 185 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
Franklintown sits at about 700 ft (210 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
700 ft 210 m
most residents: 670–720 ft
Lowest
610 ft 185 m
on the north side
Highest
730 ft 225 m
on the west side
Average
690 ft 210 m
all land inside borough limits
Franklintown spans about 120 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 | 700 ft210 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the west side | 730 ft225 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the north side | 610 ft185 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Franklintown | 700 ft215 m |
| Average of all land | 690 ft210 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.6 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in York County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 554 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.3 sq mi
- Density
- 2,164 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.0768° N, 77.0283° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 2
- 17019 17323
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Franklintown700 ft
- Franklin Township, York County660 ft
- Monaghan Township590 ft
- Dillsburg590 ft
- Carroll Township570 ft
- Warrington Township, York County560 ft
- Latimore Township550 ft
- Wellsville500 ft
- Monroe Township490 ft
- Washington Township, York County480 ft
- Messiah College460 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,357th highest of 3,545
- Towns in York County22nd highest of 91
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Big Mountain2,460 ft
- Rays Hill2,440 ft
- Greenlee Mountain2,420 ft
- Quirauk Mountain2,140 ft
- Blair Hill, York County1,130 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.