Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Franklin, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Franklin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45005. It stands on Dry Run. The Survey maps it on the Franklin quadrangle. 11,690 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 650 feet above sea level.

Franklin within Warren County

Population over time

2 figures

Franklin fell from 11,771 to 11,690 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.

Year	People	Change
2010	11,771
2020	11,690	-81 (-1%)

Then and now

1908 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 78 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Franklin, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Franklin, surveyed 1908

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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.

In the county-history sources

257 words on this township

The county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Franklin Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Franklin Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 116 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 116 specimens collected within 10 miles of Franklin between 1888 and 1975: 108 Animalia, 6 Plantae, 2 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A Schwartz, A.C. Borror, A.R. Gaufin, H.H. Ross 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Scirpus polyphyllus Vahl	1888	E. S. Steele	Carlisle.
Malva moschata L.	1889	ATW	Carlisle
Phlox divaricata L.	1890	Henry C. Cowles	Carlisle.
Zonotrichia melodia (A.Wilson, 1810)	1891	R. Smith	Lebanon
Bombus impatiens Cresson, 1863	1905	not recorded	M. Ridgeville
Monticulipora d'Orbigny, 1850 (fossil)	1916	Charles Schuchert
Cyprinella spiloptera (Cope, 1867)	1929	MB Trautman & ass't.	Great Miami River, trib. of the Ohio River, NW Franklin Twp
Hybopsis amblops (Rafinesque, 1820)	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Great Miami River, within Franklin township, near Franklin, Franklin township
Notropis amblops (Rafinesque, 1820)	1929	MB Trautman & ass't.	Great Miami River, trib. of the Ohio River, NW Franklin Twp
Notropis deliciosus (Girard, 1856)	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Great Miami River, within Franklin township, near Franklin, Franklin township
Notropis stramineus (Cope, 1865)	1929	MB Trautman & ass't.	Great Miami River, trib. of the Ohio River, NW Franklin Twp
Pimephales notatus (Rafinesque, 1820)	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Great Miami River, within Franklin township, near Franklin, Franklin township

All 116 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Franklin: 2 producers, 1 plant, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Bailey Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Embro Inc. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gentry Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Plant
Plant 9 Sand & Gravel/Moraine Matl	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Warren County

Storms near this place

26 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Franklin in 26 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 17 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 4 flood, 1 flash flood. The reports record 2 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Franklin	1 hurt, $13,000	Strong winds took a chair into the air, striking a person. The metal roof from a car wash in Springboro was torn off. Also, scaffolding and several trees were knocked down.
October 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Franklin	1 hurt, $10,000	A semi truck was overturned on Interstate 75 due to thunderstorm winds. The driver sustained minor injuries.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Franklin	$50,000	Trees were downed, some on power lines, cars, and buildings.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Franklin	$25,000	Numerous trees were downed due to damaging thunderstorm winds. One of the trees fell on a car. Minor roof damage was also reported.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Franklin	$20,000	A roof was peeled off of a building and damage occurred to a wall due to damaging thunderstorm winds. Trees were also reported down around the area.
April 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Franklin	$20,000	A portion of the roof was removed by the wind at the Townsend Auto Sales building along State Route 122. Several automobiles on the lot sustained minor damage.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Franklin	$10,000	A tree fell on a vehicle near State Route 73 and State Route 123 in Franklin.
May 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Franklin	$7,000	Trees were knocked down. A front porch collapsed off of a home.
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Franklin	$7,000	Trees down across the county.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Franklin	$6,000	A house sustained minor roof damage along State Route 123.
September 2022	Flood	Franklin	$5,000	A car was stranded in 3 feet of water at an underpass near the Great Miami River.
April 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Franklin	$5,000	Trees were knocked down in town.
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Franklin	$5,000	Trees were downed west of town.
September 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Franklin	$3,000	Trees were blown down.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Franklin	$2,000	A few trees were knocked down.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Franklin	$2,000	Two trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Franklin	$500	Large limbs were knocked down on State Route 123 in Franklin.
May 2020	Flood	Franklin	-	Lower Springboro Road was closed due to high water between East 4th Street and Pioneer Road.
September 2018	Hail	Franklin	-	This was reported near the intersection of North Dixie Highway and Pennyroyal Road.
June 2018	Flood	Franklin	-	Bridge Street in Franklin was closed due to high water.
March 2017	Flood	Franklin	-	High water was reported at the intersection of Roberts Avenue and Union Road.
June 2015	Flash Flood	Franklin	-	A creek overflowed its' banks and flooded a park near 6th Street in Franklin.
May 2013	Hail	Franklin	-	no account filed
May 2012	Hail	Franklin	-	no account filed
August 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Franklin	-	no account filed
April 1995	Hail	Franklin	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Warren 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Carlisle	1.8 miles	13
Tamarack Hills	3.1 miles	13
Flat Iron	3.5 miles	13
Royal Springs Estates	3.6 miles	13
Springboro	3.8 miles	13
Hunter	4.6 miles	16
Red Lion	5.5 miles	15
Five Points	5.9 miles	13

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 Q998459	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 1048758. 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.

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.