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Franklin, Wisconsin

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Franklin City. It lies in ZIP code area 53132. The Survey maps it on the Hales Corners quadrangle. 36,816 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 791 feet above sea level.

Franklin within Milwaukee 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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Franklin grew from 35,451 to 36,816 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
201035,451
202036,816+1,365 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

24 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Franklin between 2010 and 2020, burning about 388 acres in total. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Smoking3
Debris and open burning3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
23 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2614
4 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources140
19 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources182913
13 July 2020Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources202737
13 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources170
8 June 2020Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources202233
8 May 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources456
5 May 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1376

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Milwaukee County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Franklin: 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Jack S Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Franklin QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Lippman Plant # 2Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Milwaukee County

Storms near this place

10 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Franklin in 10 storm reports between 1995 and 2019: 4 hail, 2 lightning, 2 flash flood, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2019Flash FloodFranklin$25,000The Root River Parkway and nearby roads and intersections were closed due to the flash flooding of the Root River. A vehicle became disabled in the floodwaters. In addition to street flooding, yards, basements, and garages flooded especially in Franklin. Multiple reports of standing water on the freeway system and side streets throughout much of the county.
July 2000LightningFranklin$15,000no account filed
July 2000LightningFranklin$10,000no account filed
June 2011Flash FloodFranklin$500Heavy downpours of rain, associated with a line of strong to severe thunderstorms that crossed southern Wisconsin during the afternoon and evening hours of June 21st, dropped between 1.5 inches and 2 inches of rain over a 1 hour to a 1 1/2 hour time period. The heavy rain caused flash flooding that covered some roads with 1 to 2 feet of water. One lane of Highway 100 in Franklin was closed due to the high water, with a vehicle stalled in water on National Avenue and the Root River Parkway in West Allis.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindFranklin-Powerful thunderstorm winds snapped some large trees.
June 2010HailFranklin-no account filed
September 2010HailFranklin-no account filed
September 2007HailFranklin-no account filed
May 2000FloodFranklin-no account filed
April 1995HailFranklin-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Milwaukee 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
Saint Martins1.3 miles18
Hales Corners3.4 miles18
Greendale4.2 miles16
Greenfield5.2 miles18
Oakwood6.4 miles17
West Allis9.0 miles20
West Milwaukee9.2 miles18
Oak Creek9.3 miles17

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 Q1445183The 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 1565254. 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.

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.