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Franklin, Idaho

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Preston census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83237. It stands on Maple Creek. The Survey maps it on the Franklin quadrangle. 1,025 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,501 feet above sea level.

Franklin within Franklin County

On record in Franklin

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 4 records

Population over time

2 figures

Franklin grew from 641 to 1,025 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010641
20201,025+384 (+60%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

23 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Franklin between 1998 and 2020, burning about 951 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was 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 use6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Debris and open burning4
Recreation and ceremony4
Natural1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined51 acresUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestHIGH CREEK
7 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsCAMPBELL
21 August 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestHIGH CREEK
15 August 2003Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsBATE HOOK CREEK
14 August 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestHIGH CREEK
12 August 2013Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsCHERRY CREEK
31 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined381 acresFranklin CountyFRANKLIN COUNTY ASSIST 1
29 July 2003Equipment and vehicle use100 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsOXKELLER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Franklin: 4 producers, 3 past producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Cherty Creek PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSurface
High Creek Pit No 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
High Creek Pit No. 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSurface
Parson's Ready Mix PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Parsons Ready Mix PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Utah Dept of Highways No 03008Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Utah Dept. of Highways Pit No. 03008Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSurface

Every working recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this place

3 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Franklin in 3 storm reports between 2018 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
August 2024Thunderstorm WindFranklin$6,000Several trees and large tree limbs snapped and down in Franklin reported via social media.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindFranklin-Mesonet station 8433 D5 Franklin on US-91 recorded a 59 mph thunderstorm outflow wind.
August 2018HailFranklin-One inch hail in the town of Franklin.

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
Nashville2.5 miles12
Cherryville3.6 miles15
Fairview3.7 miles13
Whitney4.0 miles12
Mapleton5.8 miles15
Egypt6.0 miles12
Preston6.8 miles13
Anderson8.0 miles13

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on FranklinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1516826The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 372775. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.