Franklin, Kansas
24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1884 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66735. The Survey maps it on the Arma quadrangle. 473 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,407 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 1 record
- Franklin Sidewalklisted 2007
Population over time
2 figuresFranklin grew from 375 to 473 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 | 375 | |
| 2020 | 473 | +98 (+26%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
14 surveys from 24 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.
- 1884 USGS Fort Scott quadrangle1:125000
- 1886 USGS Fort Scott quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Fort Scott quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1893 USGS Ft Scott quadrangle1:125000
- 1947 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Mulberry quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1949 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Mulberry quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Arma quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Nevada quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Nevada quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
103 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 103 fires within 5 miles of Franklin between 2015 and 2020, burning about 542 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 56 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 36 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 76 |
| 6 July 2018 | Fireworks | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 018-081 |
| 20 July 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Crawford County | 82 |
| 10 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 28 June 2017 | Fireworks | under an acre | Crawford County | 017-085 |
| 4 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 018-058 |
| 26 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 018-056 |
| 12 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 018-017 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Franklin in 2 storm reports between 2007 and 2013: 2 flash flood. 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.
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 Q5491155 | 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 475147. 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.













