POPULATION
1910 - 150
(Kansas-A Cyclopedia of State History) 1915 - 1,649 (Kansas
Historical Quarterly) 1919
- 1,468 (22nd Biennial report
of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture) 1920
-1,699(22nd Biennial report of theKansas State
Board of Agriculture) 1928 - 1,450 (Listed in
1928
Businesses, Manufacturers, Merchants and Tradesman for Crawford County,
Kansas;
R. G. Dun Mercantile Agency Reference Book published January,1928) 1930s -2,004 (The
WPA Guide to 1930s Kansas published 1984) 1941 -
650(33rd Biennial report
of the Kansa State Board of Agriculture) 1942 - 534(33rd
Biennial report of the Kansa State Board of Agriculture) FRANKLIN 1906 Plat Book
of Crawford Co. - not shown
1908 SNPJ Lodge was
established October 15, 1908 in Franklin, Kansas
1908 Baughman's Kansas Post Offices
shows est. October 27, 1908. Richard H. Simmons ws 1st appointee.
1909John Dollar's First
Addition to Franklin was platted February 18, 1909.
1910 Kansas-A Cyclopedia of State
History, etc. Copyright 1912 Franklin, a village of
Crawford county, is a station on the Joplin & Pittsburg electric
railroad, about 8 miles east of Girard, the county seat. It has a
money order post office and is a trading center for that section of the
county. The population in 1910 was 150.
1917 Rand McNally guide shows
Franklin on Joplin Pittsburg Elec. Ry., money order P.O., 1915
pop. 1649
1923 Franklin, Kansas, is strictly a
mining community, located about 7 miles north of Pittsburg, population
1500. Two churches, two schools, one theatre, electric lights,
artesian water and paved streets. The miners
generally living in company houses. (Courtesy of Special
Collections Library at Pittsburg State University. From Ira
Clemens Photograph Album.)
1931 Crawford County Highway map
shows Franklin
1963 Located on State
Highway Comm. map of Crawford Co. as being about 8 mi. N. of
Pittsburg, or about 1 mi. S. of Arma.