Franklin, WI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
990 ft 305 m910 ft 280 m870 ft 265 m790 ft 240 m710 ft 215 m670 ft 205 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 770 ft (235 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
770 ft 235 m
most residents: 720–800 ft
Lowest
670 ft 205 m
on the southeast side
Highest
990 ft 305 m
on the southwest side
Average
750 ft 230 m
all land inside city limits
Franklin spans about 320 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 | 770 ft235 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 990 ft305 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 670 ft205 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Franklin | 800 ft245 m |
| Airport (MKE) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.9 mi northeast of the city limits | 728 ft222 m |
| Average of all land | 750 ft230 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, United States
- Population
- 36,591 2024 est.
- Land area
- 34.6 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,058 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.8886° N, 88.0384° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Root River
- Airport
- General Mitchell International (MKE) 728 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 53132
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- New Berlin870 ft
- Big Bend820 ft
- Muskego800 ft
- Hales Corners790 ft
- Norway780 ft
- Wind Lake780 ft
- Greenfield770 ft
- Franklin770 ft
- Greendale760 ft
- Raymond760 ft
- Caledonia660 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Wisconsin1,801st highest of 2,049
- Towns in Milwaukee County3rd highest of 19
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Tom, Racine County890 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, 460 ft at 42.9060° N, 87.9879° 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.