Franklin Township, SD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,810 ft 550 m1,760 ft 535 m1,730 ft 530 m1,680 ft 515 m1,630 ft 500 m1,610 ft 490 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 sits at about 1,730 ft (525 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,730 ft 525 m
most residents: 1,650–1,740 ft
Lowest
1,610 ft 490 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,810 ft 550 m
on the northwest side
Average
1,700 ft 520 m
all land inside township boundaries
Franklin Township spans about 200 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 | 1,730 ft525 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 1,810 ft550 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 1,610 ft490 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Franklin Township | 1,670 ft510 m |
| Airport (MDS) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.6 mi north of the township boundaries | 1,718 ft524 m |
| Average of all land | 1,700 ft520 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Lake County, South Dakota, United States
- Population
- 327 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.9 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 9.1 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.8916° N, 97.0689° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Skunk Creek → Big Sioux River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Madison Municipal (MDS) 1,718 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Orland Township1,780 ft
- Rustic Acres Colony1,740 ft
- Franklin Township1,730 ft
- Buffalo Township1,690 ft
- Wentworth Township1,640 ft
- Brant Lake1,640 ft
- Lake View Township1,620 ft
- Lake Madison1,610 ft
- Chester Township1,600 ft
- Chester1,600 ft
- Brant Lake South1,600 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Dakota539th highest of 1,383
- Towns in Lake County10th highest of 27
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Macey Hill1,710 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.