Franklin Sidewalk

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

One of 23 National Register listings published here for Crawford County · listed in 2007 · category: Structure.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Parallel to Bus US 69 bet. Franklin and Arma, Franklin, 66735
When was it listed? March 2007
Category. structure
Township. Washington township
National Register reference number. 07000143 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

104 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 104 fires within 5 miles of Franklin Sidewalk between 2015 and 2020, burning about 562 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	37
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

Every fire recorded in Crawford County

Storms near this property

2 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Franklin, the town this property stands in, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2013	Flash Flood	Franklin	-	The intersection of 620th Street and Highway 69 was closed due to flooding.
June 2007	Flash Flood	Franklin	-	Excessive rainfall caused flash flooding near the intersection of Highway 69 and 47.

Every storm recorded in Crawford County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
S-W Supply Company	7.6 miles	2009
Julius A. Wayland House	7.6 miles	1976
First Presbyterian Church	7.7 miles	2009
Leonard, J.T and Anna, House	7.7 miles	2017
State Bank of Girard	7.7 miles	2009
Crawford County Courthouse	7.7 miles	2009

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 07000143 in Record Group 79.
Crawford County	All 23 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
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.