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Franklin County, Iowa, United States

Details for Franklin County

Name

Franklin County

Place Type

County

Located in

Iowa, United States

County Seat

Hampton

Coordinates

Latitude		42.7333067		42° 43' 59.9" N
Longitude		-93.2668691		93° 16' 00.7" W

Population

11,364

Elevation

378 m

Surrounding Counties

Floyd NE
Butler E
Grundy SE
Hardin S
Hamilton SW
Wright W
Hancock NW
Cerro Gordo N

USGS GNIS FeatureID

465223

Histopolis Place ID

775918128

Updated Apr 16, 2011

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Genealogy Resources for Franklin County

8 Resources; Select a Cemetery below for additional resources specific to that Cemetery.

Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials [Find A Grave]
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=csr&CScnty=581 (25 Aug 2009)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Iowa > Franklin County [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Iowa > Franklin County
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/IA/Franklin/ (22 Jun 2010)

IAGenWeb Franklin County [IAGenWeb Project]
http://www.iagenweb.org/franklin/ (14 Feb 2009)

Franklin County Iowa Archives [USGenWeb Archives]
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ia/franklin/cemetery.html (5 Oct 2009)

Cemeteries in or near Franklin County - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=7329&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down (10 Dec 2008)

Iowa Ghost Towns - Franklin County [Iowa Ghost Towns]
http://iowaghosttowns.com/franklincounty.html (21 Jul 2008)

Franklin County, Iowa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [Wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_County,_Iowa (4 Aug 2010)

Franklin County, Iowa IA, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk [ePodunk]
Franklin County, Iowa IA, county profile, with sections on demographics, cemeteries, the economy, government, history and politics.
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=7329 (13 Nov 2008)

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1 Survey, 5 Ranges, 18 Townships

The Fifth Principal Meridian survey governs land descriptions in all or part of Franklin County. You can navigate to any of the 18 survey townships that overlap Franklin County using the navigation tool below.

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Townships of Franklin County

16 Townships

Geneva	Grant	Hamilton	Ingham
Lee	Marion	Morgan	Mott
Oakland	Osceola	Reeve	Richland
Ross	Scott	West Fork	Wisner

Cities of Franklin County

10 Cities, 7 Unincorporated Places (u.p.) (City is assumed unless noted)

Ackley	Alexander	Bradford (u.p.)	Burdette (u.p.)
Chapin (u.p.)	Coulter	Dows	Faulkner (u.p.)
Geneva	Hampton	Hansell	Latimer
Oakland (u.p.)	Popejoy	Reeve (u.p.)	Sheffield
Washington (u.p.)

Cemeteries of Franklin County

36 Cemeteries, 7 Alternate Names (*) (Cemetery is assumed unless noted)

Alexander	Coulter	Fourmile Grove	Hampton
Hansell	Hillside	Holland	Lindenwood
Marion Center	Maynes Grove	Maysville	Meservey
Morgan	Morgan Township	Mount Hope	Mt. Hope (*)
Oak Wood	Oakland Valley	Old Chapin	Olson
Otis Grove	Pleasant Hill (Grant Township)	Pleasant Hill (Grant Township)	Pleasant Hill (Osceola Township)
Redding	Saint John Zion	Saint Johns Lutheran	Saint Marys
Saint Pauls Evangelical Lutheran	Saint Peters Evangelical	Saint Peter's Lutheran	Shobes Grove
St. John Zion (*)	St. Johns Lutheran (*)	St. Marys (*)	St. Pauls Evangelical Lutheran (*)
St. Peters Evangelical (*)	St. Peter's Lutheran (*)	Towle	Trinity
Way Side	West Fork	Zion Reformed

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