New Franklin, Ohio
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Paris Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44657. The Survey maps it on the Homeworth quadrangle.
Then and now
1909 to 1994The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Topographic sheets covering this place
18 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1909 USGS Alliance quadrangle1:62500
- 1909 USGS Alliance quadrangle1:62500
- 1909 USGS Alliance quadrangle1:62500
- 1909 USGS Alliance quadrangle1:62500
- 1951 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Homeworth quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Homeworth quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Homeworth quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Homeworth quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Canton quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Canton quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Homeworth quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
1,062 words on this townshipThe county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Paris 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 Paris Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.
Fires near this place
3 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of New Franklin between 2004 and 2020, burning about 5 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 March 2004 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 November 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15929 |
| 4 November 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.5 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15930 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 98 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 98 specimens collected within 10 miles of New Franklin between 1890 and 1971: 97 Animalia, 1 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by C.R. Page, F. A. W. Dean, FE Locke 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Agelaius phoeniceus phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1890 | Paul Morris | Alliance, near |
![]() | Amblema plicata (Say, 1817) | 1893 | Sterki, Victor | Alliance |
![]() | Passerina ciris (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1905 | F. A. W. Dean | Alliance |
![]() | Ambloplites rupestris rupestris (Rafinesque, 1817) | 1928 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Sandy Creek, at Minerva, ~0.5 mi S of Minerva, Brown township |
![]() | Campostoma anomalum anomalum | 1928 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Sandy Creek, at Minerva, ~0.5 mi S of Minerva, Brown township |
![]() | Cottus bairdii bairdii Girard, 1850 | 1928 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Sandy Creek, at Minerva, ~0.5 mi S of Minerva, Brown township |
![]() | Etheostoma blennioides blennioides Rafinesque, 1819 | 1928 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Sandy Creek, at Minerva, ~0.5 mi S of Minerva, Brown township |
![]() | Etheostoma caeruleum Storer, 1845 | 1928 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Sandy Creek, at Minerva, ~0.5 mi S of Minerva, Brown township |
![]() | Etheostoma flabellare Rafinesque, 1819 | 1928 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Sandy Creek, at Minerva, ~0.5 mi S of Minerva, Brown township |
![]() | Etheostoma zonale (Cope, 1868) | 1928 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Sandy Creek, at Minerva, ~0.5 mi S of Minerva, Brown township |
![]() | Hybopsis amblops (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1928 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Sandy Creek, at Minerva, ~0.5 mi S of Minerva, Brown township |
![]() | Notropis deliciosus (Girard, 1856) | 1928 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Sandy Creek, at Minerva, ~0.5 mi S of Minerva, Brown township |
All 98 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of New Franklin: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Clay, Coal. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pleasant Valley Drive Clay Pit | Clay | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Pleasant Valley Drive Clay Pit | Clay, Coal | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
5 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Franklin in 5 storm reports between 2005 and 2020: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 hail. 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 2005 | Lightning | New Franklin | $30,000 | Lightning struck near a house and sparked an electrical fire. The house sustained serious damage. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Franklin | $15,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed several trees. |
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Franklin | $3,000 | Media reported thunderstorm winds brought down numerous large tree branches. |
| August 2012 | Hail | New Franklin | $2,000 | Police reported quarter size hail in Minerva. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Franklin | - | Five telephone poles and multiple trees downed in Minerva. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yeagleys Corners | 2.5 miles | 18 | |
| Myers | 2.9 miles | 18 | |
| Pleasant Valley (historical) | 3.4 miles | 18 | |
| Freeburg | 3.8 miles | 18 | |
| Paris | 3.9 miles | 18 | |
| Minerva | 4.8 miles | 14 | |
| Robertsville | 5.7 miles | 18 | |
| Shaffers (historical) | 6.5 miles | 18 |
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 Franklin | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7007698 | 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 1057865. 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.





























