Town of Franklin, WI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,350 ft 410 m1,220 ft 370 m1,150 ft 350 m1,020 ft 310 m890 ft 270 m820 ft 250 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Town of Franklin sits at about 1,160 ft (355 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,160 ft 355 m
most residents: 1,070–1,230 ft
Lowest
820 ft 250 m
on the south side
Highest
1,350 ft 410 m
on the north side
Average
1,140 ft 345 m
all land inside town boundaries
Town of Franklin spans about 530 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 | 1,160 ft355 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the north side | 1,350 ft410 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the south side | 820 ft250 m |
| Airport (Y51) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.9 mi north of the town boundaries | 1,292 ft394 m |
| Average of all land | 1,140 ft345 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.9 mi south to north through the middle of Town of Franklin.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Vernon County, Wisconsin, United States
- Population
- 1,147 2024 est.
- Land area
- 51.5 sq mi
- Density
- 22 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.4812° N, 90.8921° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Kickapoo River → Wisconsin River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Viroqua Municipal (Y51) 1,292 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 54655 54665
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Viroqua1,250 ft
- Town of Viroqua1,210 ft
- Town of Jefferson1,180 ft
- Town of Franklin1,160 ft
- Liberty, Vernon County1,120 ft
- Kickapoo1,110 ft
- Sterling, Vernon County1,110 ft
- Utica, Crawford County1,070 ft
- Freeman980 ft
- Soldiers Grove770 ft
- Readstown760 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Wisconsin464th highest of 2,049
- Towns in Vernon County11th highest of 32
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Perkins Hill1,240 ft
- Bunker Hill, Vernon County1,210 ft
- Mount Nebo1,160 ft
- Mount Sheldon1,160 ft
- Indianhead1,140 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the town 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 town 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. All public domain.