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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.

Franklin within Crawford 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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Franklin 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.

YearPeople Change
2010375
2020473+98 (+26%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 24 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

103 since 2015

Regional 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 burning56
Missing data/not specified/undetermined36
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Fireworks2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
13 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service76
6 July 2018Fireworksunder an acreKansas Forest Service018-081
20 July 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCrawford County82
10 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
28 June 2017Fireworksunder an acreCrawford County017-085
4 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service018-058
26 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service018-056
12 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service018-017

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crawford County

Storms near this place

2 since 2007

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2013Flash FloodFranklin-The intersection of 620th Street and Highway 69 was closed due to flooding.
June 2007Flash FloodFranklin-Excessive rainfall caused flash flooding near the intersection of Highway 69 and 47.

Every storm recorded in Crawford 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
Arma1.2 miles24
Polk2.2 miles24
Edison2.3 miles24
Croweburg3.0 miles24
Fox Town3.1 miles24
Ringo3.2 miles22
Dunkirk3.5 miles24
Curranville4.0 miles24

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 Q5491155The 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.