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Franklin, Florida

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Apalachicola census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32320. It stands on Poorhouse Creek. The Survey maps it on the West Pass quadrangle.

Franklin within Franklin County

Then and now

1943 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 45 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Franklin, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Franklin, surveyed 1943

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

94 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Franklin between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,790 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 4 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Equipment and vehicle use21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Natural13
Debris and open burning12
Railroad operations and maintenance11
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Recreation and ceremony5
Arson/incendiarism4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks1
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 1999Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
29 September 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlorida Forest Service(19) HATHCOCK FIRE
25 September 2008Smokingunder an acreFlorida Forest Service(19) PARADISE FIRE
21 September 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceTHIRD STREET FIRE
7 August 2006Natural425 acresFlorida Forest Service730
6 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceTHE MARSH (19)--0495
3 August 1999Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
29 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceKEVIN RD (19)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Franklin in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2022: 1 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
December 2022Thunderstorm WindFranklin$2,000Fallen trees or limbs resulted in a power outage.
September 2009FloodFranklin-Torrential rainfall on antecedent saturated ground caused areal flooding over southern portions of the county. A portion of U.S. Highway 98 was temporarily closed due to high water. Water approached several homes in low-lying areas. State Road 65 and Tate's Hell Swamp received as much as ten inches of rain.

Every storm recorded in Franklin County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Bay City0.7 miles16
Two Mile2.6 miles16
Apalachicola2.8 miles17
Tilton2.9 miles16
Achackwaithle (historical)5.3 miles16
Nine Mile5.4 miles16
Magnolia Bluffs6.8 miles17
Eleven Mile7.2 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295304. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.