South Franklin Township, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,460 ft 445 m1,350 ft 410 m1,290 ft 395 m1,180 ft 360 m1,070 ft 325 m1,010 ft 310 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
South Franklin Township sits at about 1,220 ft (370 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,220 ft 370 m
most residents: 1,140–1,300 ft
Lowest
1,010 ft 310 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,460 ft 445 m
on the southwest side
Average
1,210 ft 370 m
all land inside township boundaries
South Franklin Township spans about 450 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 | 1,220 ft370 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 1,460 ft445 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 1,010 ft310 m |
| Airport (AFJ) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 1,184 ft361 m |
| Average of all land | 1,210 ft370 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
4.6 mi south to north through the middle of South Franklin Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 2,840 2024 est.
- Land area
- 20.6 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 138 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.1096° N, 80.2889° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Washington County (AFJ) 1,184 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 15301 15329
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Laboratory1,320 ft
- Buffalo Township, Washington County1,250 ft
- South Franklin Township1,220 ft
- Amwell Township1,210 ft
- Morris Township, Washington County1,200 ft
- Green Hills1,200 ft
- North Franklin Township1,180 ft
- Wolfdale1,170 ft
- East Washington1,170 ft
- Canton Township1,140 ft
- Washington1,110 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania1,031st highest of 3,545
- Towns in Washington County9th highest of 103
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Wheeler1,512 ft
- Mosier Hill1,500 ft
- Sampson Hill1,490 ft
- Garrett Hill1,400 ft
- Cemetery Hill, Washington County1,330 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.