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Franklinville, Illinois

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Seneca Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60098. The Survey maps it on the Marengo North quadrangle.

Franklinville within McHenry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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.

In the county-history sources

6,088 words on this township

History of McHenry County, Illinois : Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Towns : Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History : Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Representative Citizens, Also a Condensed History of Illinois .., published 1885 names this settlement in its chapter on Seneca Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Amos Damon came from Ohio in 1836. Silas Chatfield, a Captain in the war of 1812, came here from Ohio in 1836; he died April 2, 1866. He had been wounded while serving his country and drew a Captain's pension for years. Joseph Hannacame from Virginia and settled here in 1836 and died in 1850.

Passage source: History of McHenry County, Illinois : Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Towns : Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History : Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Representative Citizens, Also a Condensed History of Illinois .., published 1885.

Whitman Cobb, formerly from Cazenovia County, N. Y., settled here in the fall of 1836. A few years afterward he moved to Jo Daviess County, where he remained several years and then returned to Riley Township, this county, where he died Feb. 2, 1866.

Passage source: History of McHenry County, Illinois : Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Towns : Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History : Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Representative Citizens, Also a Condensed History of Illinois .., published 1885.

M. Dickenson settled in Seneca in 1837, and the same year came John Ackerson and Peter Deitz, the latter was a lawyer by profession and practiced some here in an early day. Clark Wix and Spencer Flanders also came in 1837. Leander Bishop came from New York State and is still a resident of the township. John White came from North Carolina and died in Marengo in the year 1869.

Passage source: History of McHenry County, Illinois : Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Towns : Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History : Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Representative Citizens, Also a Condensed History of Illinois .., published 1885.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Seneca Township - it names this place 11 more 11 times.

Fires near this place

1 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Franklinville in 2010, burning under an acre in total. None 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
Debris and open burning1

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
28 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesGOODMARK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McHenry County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Franklinville: 1 past producer, 1 plant, 1 producer. 2 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
Gavers Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Rose Farm PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Union PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in McHenry County

Storms near this place

6 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Franklinville in 6 storm reports between 2010 and 2024: 2 hail, 2 heavy rain, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
June 2024HailFranklinville-A photo shared via social media showed nickel to quarter size hail near South St and Franklinville Rd north of Franklinville.
June 2024Heavy RainFranklinville-Private weather station KILWOODS62 recorded a 3 hour rainfall amount of 4.61.
June 2024Heavy RainFranklinville-Mesonet station GW1054 recorded 4.69 of storm total rainfall.
May 2023Tornado (EFU)Franklinville-A brief landspout tornado was visible in an open field based on two public photos, including one from a drone, west of Woodstock. Timestamps from photos indicate that the landspout may have spanned over a period of a few minutes. The storm's path was estimated from the drone image and storm motion.
May 2014HailFranklinville-Nickel size hail was reported near Route 176 and Franklinville Road.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindFranklinville-Trees were blown over south of Route 176 from Woodstock to Crystal Lake.

Every storm recorded in McHenry 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
Union3.4 miles13
Woodstock4.2 miles18
Coral5.0 miles13
Marengo5.5 miles13
Hartland6.0 miles15
Indian Trails6.4 miles13
Coyne7.1 miles18
Crystal Gardens7.6 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 408703. 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.