Franklin, South Dakota

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Franklin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57042. The Survey maps it on the Lake Madison quadrangle.

Franklin within Lake County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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.

1955 USGS Sioux Falls quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Sioux Falls quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Lake Madison quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Salem quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

7 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Franklin between 1999 and 2015, burning about 508 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
Debris and open burning	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3

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 July 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
8 May 2009	Debris and open burning	42 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
30 April 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	FODS
30 April 2015	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	4 MILE FIRE
21 April 2009	Debris and open burning	425 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
24 March 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	PULSCHER
9 November 1999	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Colton Volunteer Fire Department	DONALD ORDAL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Storms near this place

6 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Franklin in 6 storm reports between 2000 and 2020: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Franklin	-	Wind gust was measured by a personal weather station.
May 2012	Flash Flood	Franklin	-	Heavy rain caused flash flooding of roads and fields. Hail also fell and covered the ground.
August 2011	Hail	Franklin	-	Large hail was accompanied by estimated 40 mph wind gusts.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Franklin	-	Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including a two foot diameter tree blown down.
September 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Franklin	-	Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including numerous branches blown down.
August 2000	Hail	Franklin	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lake 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
Rustic Acres Colony	1.8 miles	6
Smiths Park	4.8 miles	7
Peninsula Park	4.9 miles	6
Chautauqua	6.1 miles	6
Orland (historical)	6.3 miles	6
Orland	6.4 miles	6
Brant Lake	7.1 miles	7
Chester	7.6 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1261005. 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.

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.