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New Franklin, Missouri

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Franklin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65274. It stands on Sulphur Creek. The Survey maps it on the New Franklin quadrangle. 1,027 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 646 feet above sea level.

New Franklin within Howard County

On record in New 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

Population over time

2 figures

New Franklin fell from 1,089 to 1,027 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
20101,089
20201,027-62 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

Fires near this place

5 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of New Franklin between 2002 and 2020, burning about 56 acres 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning2

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 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation176927-02732-04282018-1408
1 April 2002Debris and open burning5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 February 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
21 February 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation210515-02732-02212020-1420
26 January 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation176864-02732-01262018-1934

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Howard County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of New Franklin: 6 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Cox QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Hall + Riley QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Klusmeyer MineStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Howard County

Storms near this place

38 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Franklin in 38 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 21 hail, 15 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain, 1 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
April 1993HailNew Franklin$50,000Tennis ball size hail broke several car windows and dented parked cars at a nearby lumber yard. The New Franklin Police Department and an area farmer reported 1.00-inch-diameter hail and smaller covering the ground as deep as 3 inches in and east of New Franklin.
March 2006Thunderstorm WindNew Franklin$5,000Roof damage reported.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindNew Franklin$5,000Numerous power lines and poles were blown down.
March 1993HailNew Franklin$5,000Reported by the New Franklin Police Department.
March 1993Thunderstorm WindNew Franklin$5,000Reported by the New Franklin Police Department.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindNew Franklin$1,000Power lines downed.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindNew Franklin$500A large tree was reported uprooted, with several smaller trees snapped off. A carport was lifted up and then blown down. Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindNew Franklin$500Thunderstorm winds gusted up to 60 mph, with damage observed to a carport, that was lifted into the air and and blown down. A large tree was uprooted and several smaller trees were also snapped off.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindNew Franklin-Downed tree and wires near Chancellor Street in New Franklin.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindNew Franklin-Downed tree and wires near County Road 448.
September 2025Thunderstorm WindNew Franklin-Multiple tree limbs and wires down just north of New Franklin.
September 2025Thunderstorm WindNew Franklin-Social media photos of multiple trees and limbs down between Franklin and New Franklin.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindNew Franklin-Tree limbs and wires down with power outages.
April 2023HailNew Franklin-Hen egg sized hail was reported in New Franklin.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindNew Franklin-A few broken residential windows with multiple mailboxes and road signs were blown over.
April 2014HailNew Franklin-Strong winds were also reported.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindNew Franklin-Tree downed on Highway EE.
June 2004Flash FloodNew Franklin-County road 433 closed due to high water.
June 1998HailNew Franklin-The Chief of Police reported dime-size hail during a severe thunderstorm at New Franklin.
February 1998Heavy RainNew Franklin-Heavy rains resulted in minor flooding of roadways. The worst of the road flooding was in southwest Howard County where Route Z just off of Highway 87 was closed due to high water.
April 1997HailNew Franklin-Dime-size hail was reported during a severe thunderstorm along Route 5 10 miles north of New Franklin.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindNew Franklin-Several trees were downed in and around the New Franklin area by severe thunderstorms.
April 1993HailNew Franklin-Tennis ball size hail broke several car windows and dented parked cars at a nearby lumber yard. The New Franklin Police Department and an area farmer reported 1.00-inch-diameter hail and smaller covering the ground as deep as 3 inches in and east of New Franklin.
April 1993HailNew Franklin-Tennis ball size hail broke several car windows and dented parked cars at a nearby lumber yard. The New Franklin Police Department and an area farmer reported 1.00-inch-diameter hail and smaller covering the ground as deep as 3 inches in and east of New Franklin.
March 2017HailNew Franklin-no account filed
March 2014HailNew Franklin-no account filed
April 2014HailNew Franklin-no account filed
June 2011HailNew Franklin-no account filed
June 2006HailNew Franklin-no account filed
June 2006HailNew Franklin-no account filed
June 2005HailNew Franklin-no account filed
June 2005HailNew Franklin-no account filed
June 2005HailNew Franklin-no account filed
June 2004HailNew Franklin-no account filed
May 2002Thunderstorm WindNew Franklin-no account filed
March 2000HailNew Franklin-no account filed
April 1995HailNew Franklin-no account filed
April 1995HailNew Franklin-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Howard 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
Franklin0.9 miles17
Estill2.2 miles15
Boonesboro6.9 miles17
Petersburg8.7 miles17
Fayette9.3 miles16
Hilldale9.9 miles15
Lisbon10.9 miles17
Sebree13.3 miles16

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 New FranklinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q952379The 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 723198. 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.