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Franklin County, Idaho

Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

10historic places

—earliest paper

1913formed

14,194pop. 2020

10cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 10 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1973; 1 is also National Historic Landmark. Most listings are in or near Preston, Franklin, Weston.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Idaho is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Franklin titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

7 of 10 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

10 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Bear River Battleground NHL	Preston	Site	1973
Cowley, Matthias, House	Preston	Building	1976
Franklin City Hall	Franklin	Building	1991
Franklin Co-operative Mercantile Institution	Franklin	Building	1991
Franklin County Courthouse	Preston	Building	1987
Hatch, L. H., House	Franklin	Building	1973
Oneida Stake Academy	Preston	Building	1975
Relic Hall	Franklin	Building	2001
US Post Office-Preston Main	Preston	Building	1989
Weston Canyon Rock Shelter	Weston	Site	1974

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Franklin was formed in 1913 (1913-01-30) from Oneida.

FRANKLIN created from ONEIDA.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Franklin County population from 1920 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
8,650	10,229	9,867	8,457	8,895	11,329	14,194

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

10 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 10 of 10 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Cleveland Cemetery	42.35845	-111.74042
Clifton Cemetery	42.17863	-112.0142
Dayton Cemetery	42.10832	-111.98883
Fairview Cemetery	42.02134	-111.87055
Franklin Cemetery	42.00298	-111.81587
Oxford Cemetery	42.2535	-112.02585
Preston Cemetery	42.12265	-111.8584
Treasureton Cemetery	42.27438	-111.84512
Weston Cemetery	42.04156	-111.98245
Whitney Cemetery	42.0777	-111.84189

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

HMdb link

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