# How close do you live to Franklin? (USA Dopers primarily) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 17, 2006, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-do-you-live-to-franklin-usa-dopers-primarily/369089 "2006-08-17T14:23:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2006, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-do-you-live-to-franklin-usa-dopers-primarily/369089/41 "2006-08-17T18:41:28Z")
> [@norinew](#): > > I’m jealous that everyone except me is getting to have coffee with you. ☹ Someday! Someday! ---
**Author:** ![davmilasav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@davmilasav](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davmilasav)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2006, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-do-you-live-to-franklin-usa-dopers-primarily/369089/42 "2006-08-17T18:50:24Z")
> [@MLS](#): > > Sure. I live in Franklin Township, New Jersey. And I grew up in Franklin Twp, PA. ---
**Author:** ![davmilasav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@davmilasav](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davmilasav)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2006, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-do-you-live-to-franklin-usa-dopers-primarily/369089/43 "2006-08-17T18:53:55Z")
> [@davmilasav](#): > > And I grew up in Franklin Twp, PA. Wikipedia Says [this](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Township%2C_Beaver_County%2C_Pennsylvania) ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2006, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-do-you-live-to-franklin-usa-dopers-primarily/369089/44 "2006-08-17T18:55:49Z")
According to MapQuest, I’m about 86 miles from Franklin, FL. The next closest Franklin appears to be Alabama. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2006, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-do-you-live-to-franklin-usa-dopers-primarily/369089/45 "2006-08-17T20:06:06Z")
Wisconsin has at least two Franklins; one is incorporated and one is not. I’ve lived pretty close to both of them. ---
**Author:** ![MLS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MLS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MLS)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2006, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-do-you-live-to-franklin-usa-dopers-primarily/369089/46 "2006-08-17T20:41:12Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Good. So now we’re down from county to township. Roughly how big (square miles) is that township? Any idea of population there? From [here](http://www.franklintwpnj.org/geninfo.html): > [@](#): > > 46 square miles, bounded on the north, west and south by the Raritan and Millstone Rivers, on the east by State Highway 27 (except for the Little Rocky Hill section of the Township where the boundary is Old Road, former State Highway 27 alignment) > > Encompasses the historic and geographic areas of Zarephath, East Millstone, Franklin Park, Griggstown, Middlebush, Somerset and portions of Kingston and Little Rocky Hill > > POPULATION - 2000 Census - 50,903 ---
**Author:** ![davmilasav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@davmilasav](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davmilasav)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2006, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-do-you-live-to-franklin-usa-dopers-primarily/369089/47 "2006-08-17T21:27:30Z")
> [@MLS](#): > > From [here](http://www.franklintwpnj.org/geninfo.html): My Franklin is smaller! And there appear to be multiple Franklin Twps in PA but then, what else would you expect? ---
**Author:** ![tarragon918](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d26b3c/32.png) [@tarragon918](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tarragon918)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2006, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-do-you-live-to-franklin-usa-dopers-primarily/369089/48 "2006-08-17T21:37:21Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > 23 Miles from Franklin VA (closest); 267 to Franklin NC (closest of 2 within NC where I live); 750 miles to Franklin IN, which is near Indianapolis where I moved east from. Slight hijack here, but that’s my Dad’s hometown, **VunderBob**. I’ve got relatives all in that area, in Holland and in Suffolk, and in the Tidewater area in general. I had wondered if you were near any of them, and now I know. 🙂 Uh… I don’t know how far I am from any Franklin, btw. Sorry! ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2006, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-do-you-live-to-franklin-usa-dopers-primarily/369089/49 "2006-08-17T21:39:30Z")
266 miles from Franklin, OH in Warren County 114 from Franklin in Coshocton County 70 and 77 miles from the two nearest Franklins in PA. ---
**Author:** ![tarragon918](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d26b3c/32.png) [@tarragon918](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tarragon918)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2006, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-do-you-live-to-franklin-usa-dopers-primarily/369089/50 "2006-08-17T21:43:10Z")
> [@Emilio Lizardo](#): > > I live 0.7 miles from [Franklin’s Restaurant Brewery & General Store](http://www.franklinsbrewery.com/). Does that count for anything? Okay, this is too weird. I know exactly where Franklin’s is … and I’m about 1.5 miles from it! I’m on Gallatin Street, off of Hamilton, behind the Safeway, btw, **Emilio Lizardo**. ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2006, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-do-you-live-to-franklin-usa-dopers-primarily/369089/51 "2006-08-17T21:48:50Z")
In Pennsyltuckey, we has us a bunch of Franklins. One in Venango County (up towards Erie), one in Cambria County (outside of Johnstown), one in Chester County (near Philly), and another in Westmoreland County (near Pittsburgh). Then there’s the Borough of Franklintown in northern York County (south of Harrisburg) which is 18.5 miles from me, and the eastern border of Franklin County is around 33 miles. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2006, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-do-you-live-to-franklin-usa-dopers-primarily/369089/52 "2006-08-17T21:52:10Z")
Huh! Aparently I live 20.55 miles from Franklin, CA. I didn’t even know there was one! I drove down Franklin Blvd. today to get to a friend’s house. I guess if I’d kept going I would have gotton to Franklin proper. I don’t think it’s a real town. I think it’s more of a locale. When I look at it on the Mapquest map, it appears to be about a dozen square blocks in the middle Elk Grove, CA. ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2006, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-do-you-live-to-franklin-usa-dopers-primarily/369089/53 "2006-08-17T21:52:30Z")
19.81 miles from one of the four Franklins (according to MapQuest) in NJ. ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2006, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-do-you-live-to-franklin-usa-dopers-primarily/369089/54 "2006-08-17T21:54:45Z")
> [@tashabot](#): > > I live 141 miles away from Franklin, Calif. (according to Mapquest). Franklin appears to be a suburb of Sacramento; could be wrong. I’m 66 miles from the same place. It actually used to be a Western Pacific (later became Union Pacific) railroad depot. Might have been a city at one point, but now, it’s really just a ghost on the far, far southwest edge of Sacramento. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2006, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-do-you-live-to-franklin-usa-dopers-primarily/369089/55 "2006-08-17T21:56:16Z")
> [@gotpasswords](#): > > I’m 66 miles from the same place. It actually used to be a Western Pacific (later became Union Pacific) railroad depot. Might have been a city at one point, but now, it’s really just a ghost on the far, far southwest edge of Sacramento. This would be the same place I am 20.55 (see above post). It’s really more of a neighborhood. ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2006, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-do-you-live-to-franklin-usa-dopers-primarily/369089/56 "2006-08-17T21:58:26Z")
I live about 40 miles from Franklin, TN. StG ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2006, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-do-you-live-to-franklin-usa-dopers-primarily/369089/57 "2006-08-17T22:00:03Z")
My dad grew up in the Indiana Masonic Home in **Franklin, Indiana.** Mom and Dad both graduated from **Franklin College** there. My dad tried to get me to go to college there. There’s daily mandatory chapel there, so, no thanks, Dad. The town is about 1 1/2 to 2 hours from here. Do I like Franklin? Dunno, I never frankled. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2006, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-do-you-live-to-franklin-usa-dopers-primarily/369089/58 "2006-08-17T22:31:09Z")
I, too, am _in_ Franklin County and just a few miles from the area of town called Franklinton. One of the major landmarks there is Greenlawn Cemetery, which Mapquest tells me is 4.35 miles from me. I’m 75.77 miles from the Franklin that’s in Coshocton County (near, well, Coshocton - basically east of Columbus) and 88.17 miles from the Franklin that looks like it’s halfway between Dayton and Cincinnati, in Warren County. GT ---
**Author:** ![Roonwit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/54ee81/32.png) [@Roonwit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roonwit)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-do-you-live-to-franklin-usa-dopers-primarily/369089/59 "2006-08-18T02:20:07Z")
> [@MrsMonkey](#): > > I’m currently 83 miles from Franklin, GA. > > But I did move here in December from Franklin, TN! I’m 19 miles from Franklin, GA (Newnan)…and have been all my life. Do I win the Georgia pool? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-do-you-live-to-franklin-usa-dopers-primarily/369089/60 "2006-08-18T02:25:25Z")
According to Mapquest, Franklin, Idaho is 323.38 miles from where I live. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-do-you-live-to-franklin-usa-dopers-primarily/369089.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-do-you-live-to-franklin-usa-dopers-primarily/369089.md?page=4)