Franklin, TN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,160 ft 350 m1,020 ft 310 m940 ft 290 m800 ft 245 m660 ft 200 m590 ft 180 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Franklin sits at about 690 ft (210 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
690 ft 210 m
most residents: 650–810 ft
Lowest
590 ft 180 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,160 ft 350 m
on the east side
Average
720 ft 220 m
all land inside city limits
Franklin spans about 570 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 | 690 ft210 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 1,160 ft350 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 590 ft180 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Franklin | 650 ft195 m |
| Average of all land | 720 ft220 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
9.9 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Williamson County, Tennessee, United States
- Population
- 89,142 2024 est.
- Land area
- 44.6 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 2,000 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 35.9251° N, 86.8689° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Drains to
- Harpeth River → Cumberland River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 3
- 37064 37067 37069
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Fairview830 ft
- Thompson's Station810 ft
- Forest Hills760 ft
- Spring Hill750 ft
- Brentwood730 ft
- Franklin690 ft
- Nolensville660 ft
- Oak Hill630 ft
- Pegram560 ft
- Belle Meade550 ft
- Berry Hill530 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Tennessee295th highest of 504
- Towns in Williamson County5th highest of 6
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Harvey Knobs1,160 ft
- Ropers Knob990 ft
- Breezy Hill890 ft
- Green Hill, Williamson County850 ft
- Reid Hill850 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city 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 city limits (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, 350 ft at 35.9021° N, 86.8971° 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. All public domain.