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.
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
Franklin City Halllisted 1991
Franklin Co-operative Mercantile Institutionlisted 1991
L. H. Hatch Houselisted 1973
Relic Halllisted 2001
Population over time
2 figuresFranklin 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 641 | |
| 2020 | 1,025 | +384 (+60%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1915 USGS Preston quadrangle1:125000
- 1915 USGS Preston quadrangle1:96000
- 1918 USGS Preston quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Preston quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Preston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Preston quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Franklin quadrangle1:24000
- 1983 USGS Preston quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
23 since 1998Regional 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 use | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 51 acres | Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest | HIGH CREEK |
| 7 August 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | CAMPBELL |
| 21 August 2013 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest | HIGH CREEK |
| 15 August 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | BATE HOOK CREEK |
| 14 August 1998 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest | HIGH CREEK |
| 12 August 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | CHERRY CREEK |
| 31 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 381 acres | Franklin County | FRANKLIN COUNTY ASSIST 1 |
| 29 July 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | 100 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | OXKELLER |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
7 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cherty Creek Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface | |
| High Creek Pit No 1 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| High Creek Pit No. 1 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface | |
| Parson's Ready Mix Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Parsons Ready Mix Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Utah Dept of Highways No 03008 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Utah Dept. of Highways Pit No. 03008 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Surface |
Storms near this place
3 since 2018Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Franklin | $6,000 | Several trees and large tree limbs snapped and down in Franklin reported via social media. |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Franklin | - | Mesonet station 8433 D5 Franklin on US-91 recorded a 59 mph thunderstorm outflow wind. |
| August 2018 | Hail | Franklin | - | One inch hail in the town of Franklin. |
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.
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 Franklin | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1516826 | The 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.







