Do you know of New Franklin ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about New Franklin. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with New Franklin.

Our sources for New Franklin (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of New Franklin other than they indicate that New Franklin would be found somewhere in Wayne County, Illinois.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1849 and closed  in 1878.

This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.

Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.

Communities Also Named New Franklin ...

We found four communities that share the name New Franklin.

Within Illinois, the name New Franklin is unique.

Beyond Illinois, we know of another four communities that are located throughout in the United States.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Missouri
    • Howard County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of New Franklin [Howard County].
  • Ohio
    • Stark County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of New Franklin [Stark County].
    • Summit County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of New Franklin [Summit County].
  • Pennsylvania
    • Franklin County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of New Franklin [Franklin County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for New Franklin ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about New Franklin:

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

Rand McNally Map (1881)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

More Orphans in  Wayne County ...

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As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Wayne County.