Elevation of Franklin, Tennessee, United States of America

Franklin, Tennessee, United States of America is 195 m (640 ft) above sea level.

Franklin's height from sea level is 195 metres, or 640 feet. GeoNames reads 201 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 196 m.

Ground within 5 km

186 m – 285 m

Mean 215 m across the 9.2 km square centred on the town, 99 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

6th of 15

among the towns of Tennessee, and 373rd of 1,000 in United States of America.

Nearest town

27.8 km to the N, at 142 m, 53 m lower.

Cross-section through Franklin

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Franklin; the vertical scale is the same on both.

297177WE26 km
West to east: from 268 m at 13 km west to 259 m at 13 km east.
297177NS26 km
North to south: from 198 m at 13 km north to 250 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 55 km around Franklin, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 55 km across, north up; the ring marks the town.

Shading is a north-west light over the grid's own slopes. Colour follows elevation: sea level and below, 0–200 m, 500 m, 1,000 m, 2,000 m, 3,500 m, 5,000 m and above.

Towns near Franklin

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Nashville 27.8 kmN 142 m (466 ft) −53 m
Smyrna 32.2 kmE 169 m (554 ft) −26 m

Peaks and passes near Franklin

Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.

Where Franklin is

Latitude 35.9250637, longitude -86.8688899. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Franklin elevation: 195 m (640 ft) above sea level

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About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Franklin's recorded coordinates. It is the height of the ground in that cell, not of any building; a town on a slope spans several cells, and the range above says how much that matters here. GeoNames' reading of 201 m comes from a finer 90 m SRTM grid at the point it records for the town, which may sit a few hundred metres from ours; the two agreeing to within a few metres is the usual case on flat ground, and a larger gap means the ground is steep. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.