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Franklin County, Washington

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

—newspaper titles

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16historic places

—earliest paper

1883formed

96,749pop. 2020

7cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 16 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1966; 1 is also National Historic Landmark. Most listings are in or near Pasco, Richland, Windust.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

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

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

6 of 16 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

16 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Allen Rockshelter	Pasco	Site	1978
Burr Cave	Walker	Site	1978
Franklin County Courthouse	Pasco	Building	1978
Kurtzman Park	Pasco	District	2022
Lower Snake River Archaeological District	Pasco	District	1984
Marmes Rockshelter NHL	Lyons Ferry	Site	1966
Moore, James, House	Pasco	Building	1979
Morning Star Baptist Church	Pasco	Building	2022
Palouse Canyon Archaeological District	Starbuck	District	1984
Pasco Carnegie Library	Pasco	Building	1982
Sacajawea State Park	Pasco	District	2007
Savage Island Archeological District	Richland	District	1976
Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway Company-Box Canyon Viaduct	Windust	Structure	2018
Strawberry Island Village Archeological Site	Pasco	Site	1980
Tri-Cities Archaeological District	Richland	District	1984
Windust Caves Archaeological District	Windust	District	1984

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 1883 (1883-11-28) from Whitman.

FRANKLIN created by Washington Territory from WHITMAN.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Franklin County population from 1890 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1890	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
696	486	5,877	6,307	13,563	23,342	35,025	49,347	96,749

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

National Park Service sites nearby

NPS

Park units within about 40 km of the county centroid (from NPS Public POIs; no API key).

Site	Type	Dist.
Ice Age Floods National Geologic Trail	Park unit	47.9 km

Source: NPS National Datasets / Public POIs. The NPS Developer API requires a free key and was not used.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

7 cemeteries and 1 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 7 of 7 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
City View Cemetery	46.24827	-119.08686
Columbia Memorial Gardens	46.2293	-119.12277
Connell Cemetery	46.67802	-118.88053
Eltopia Cemetery	46.46047	-119.02354
Lakeview Cemetery	46.64708	-118.55386
Old Bones Cemetery	46.60403	-118.21523
Paradise Flats Cemetery	46.72238	-118.94155

Historical populated places — 1 of 1

Name	Lat	Lon
Davin	46.60848	-118.32442

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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