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Franklin, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Franklin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77856. It stands on Touchstone Branch. The Survey maps it on the Franklin quadrangle. 1,614 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 449 feet above sea level.

Franklin within Robertson County

On record in 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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Franklin grew from 1,564 to 1,614 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
20101,564
20201,614+50 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

81 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Franklin between 2005 and 2020, burning about 854 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 1 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 burning49
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Equipment and vehicle use7
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Natural3
Arson/incendiarism1

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
9 September 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSANDY HILL
8 September 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceMAIN ST
8 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLITTLE MISSISSIPPI CEMETERY RD.
8 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service17-107
7 September 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTFS 17-0000105
6 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLITTLE MISSISSIPPI CEMETERY RD.
5 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNAVASOTA VALLEY
4 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLITTLE MISSISSIPPI CEMETERY RD.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Robertson County

Storms near this place

26 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Franklin in 26 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 12 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 tornado. 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
May 2006LightningFranklin$30,000Lightning struck and ignited several tanks of oil and gas early in the afternoon. Seven fire departments fought the fire for three hours before it was extinguished.
April 1997Thunderstorm WindFranklin$25,000High wind removed the roof from a farm house.
May 2025Tornado (EF0)Franklin$10,000An EF-0 tornado touched down just west of Henry Prairie Rd south of Franklin and moved northeast across FM 46 and McNutt Road before lifting near Old Hickory Grove Road. Several trees and large tree limbs were blown down along the path, with minor damage to a few homes and outbuildings. Max winds were estimated at 80 mph.
April 2009Thunderstorm WindFranklin$7,000Large cedar trees were uprooted and large limbs broken on the south side of Franklin. Additional tree damage was reported elsewhere in town along with downed power lines and broken windows. A motorcycle was also thrown across the road.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindFranklin$5,000Broadcast media reported that a roof was blown off of a laundromat and onto Hwy 79 in Frankin, TX.
August 1999Thunderstorm WindFranklin$100A tree was blown down by thunderstorm winds.
May 2024HailFranklin-Broadcast media shared a photo of quarter sized hail in Franklin.
April 2022HailFranklin-A public report indicated quarter sized hail in Franklin, TX.
June 2019HailFranklin-A public report indicated quarter-size hail in the city of Franklin, TX.
April 2016HailFranklin-A trained spotter reported half dollar sized hail in the city of Franklin.
May 2013HailFranklin-Hail increased to the size of a half dollar in Franklin.
April 2010HailFranklin-Quarter size hail was reported 1 mile west of Franklin.
February 2006Flash FloodFranklin-Water covering the road along Farm to Market 46.
May 2005Thunderstorm WindFranklin-Several trees blown down.
May 2005Thunderstorm WindFranklin-Large tree limbs broken off.
June 2004Flash FloodFranklin-County and secondary roads were flooded.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindFranklin-A large tree was blown down across Holly Cemetary Road near Highway 79 in east Franklin.
June 2004Tornado (F0)Franklin-A brief touchdown occurred with no known damage.
May 2003HailFranklin-Golfball to baseball size hail was reported.
May 2001Thunderstorm WindFranklin-A tree was blown down on Highway 79.
January 1999Flash FloodFranklin-Heavy rains flooded Highway 46, north of Franklin.
April 2016HailFranklin-no account filed
May 2013HailFranklin-no account filed
May 2003HailFranklin-no account filed
March 2002HailFranklin-no account filed
April 1996HailFranklin-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Robertson 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
New Baden3.4 miles10
Owensville3.7 miles7
Elliot6.7 miles7
Easterly7.7 miles10
Nesbitt7.7 miles7
Eaton8.5 miles7
Black Jack9.8 miles7
Tidwell Prairie10.1 miles8

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 FranklinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q974124The 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 1357676. 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.