Franklin Furnace, Ohio

Franklin Furnace fell from 1,660 to 1,525 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. 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.

The same ground, surveyed 76 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1926 2002

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.

• 1926 USGS Greenup quadrangle1:62500
• 1926 USGS Greenup quadrangle1:62500
• 1926 USGS Greenup quadrangle1:48000
• 1930 USGS Greenup quadrangle1:62500
• 1930 USGS Greenup quadrangle1:62500
• 1930 USGS Greenup quadrangle1:62500
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Wheelersburg quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Wheelersburg quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Wheelersburg quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Wheelersburg quadrangle1:24000
• 1981 USGS Ironton quadrangle1:100000
• 2002 USGS Wheelersburg quadrangle1:24000

A History of Scioto County, Ohio,, published 1903; History of Scioto County, Ohio, Together with a Pioneer Record of Southern Ohio, published 1903 names this settlement in its chapter on Green Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 131 fires within 5 miles of Franklin Furnace between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,415 acres in total. None started naturally. 22 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Haverhill
• Highland Park
• Junior Furnace
• Ohio Furnace
• Powellsville
• Allentown

Every fire recorded in Scioto County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 156 specimens collected within 10 miles of Franklin Furnace between 1890 and 1974: 129 Animalia, 18 Fungi, 9 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Anson A. Hinkley, Braun, E. Lucy, C. Stein and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Phyllosticta Pers., 1818	1896	F.L. Stevens
	Helmitheros vermivorum (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1890	Edwin H. Eames	Culvertown
	Cyclonaias kleiniana (I.Lea, 1852)	1910	Ortmann, Arnold E	Portsmouth
	Cyclonaias pustulosa (I.Lea, 1831)	1910	Ortmann, Arnold E	Portsmouth
	Cyprogenia stegaria (Rafinesque, 1820)	1910	Ortmann, Arnold E	Portsmouth
	Ellipsaria lineolata (Rafinesque, 1820)	1910	Ortmann, Arnold E	Portsmouth
	Elliptio crassidens (Lamarck, 1819)	1910	Ortmann, Arnold E	Portsmouth
	Fusconaia subrotunda (I.Lea, 1831)	1910	Ortmann, Arnold E	Portsmouth
	Lampsilis teres (Rafinesque, 1820)	1910	Ortmann, Arnold E	Portsmouth
	Lasmigona costata (Rafinesque, 1820)	1910	Ortmann, Arnold E	Portsmouth
	Lithasia verrucosa (Rafinesque, 1820)	1910	Anson A. Hinkley	Ohio River, Portsmouth, North America
	Megalonaias nervosa (Rafinesque, 1820)	1910	Ortmann, Arnold E	Portsmouth

All 156 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Franklin Furnace: 8 past producers, 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, 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.

Every working recorded in Scioto County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Franklin Furnace in 8 storm reports between 2003 and 2024: 4 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 death and 4 injuries. 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.

Every storm recorded in Scioto County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1075237. 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.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

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.