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Welcome to Franklin Falls ...

Franklin Falls is located in Franklin County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Franklin Falls, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1851.

Franklin Falls is 1,430 feet [436 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: Franklin Falls lies in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Codes for Franklin Falls: 518 & 838<3>

Communities Also Named Franklin Falls ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Franklin Falls - it's located in New Hampshire.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Franklin Falls.

Communities near Franklin Falls ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Franklin Falls.

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Franklin Falls. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Franklin Falls.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Franklin Falls. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Franklin Falls.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Franklin Falls. See our Newspapers Page for Franklin Falls.

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Franklin Falls ...

Looking for more information about Franklin Falls? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.

While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Franklin Falls, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Franklin Falls.

Adding Franklin Falls to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Franklin Falls in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Franklin Falls was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6>

From that list, the Franklin Falls post office opened in 1851.

We also found Franklin Falls in the book titled List of Post Offices in the United States (1870).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Franklin Falls.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of New York's counties, including Franklin, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Franklin Falls - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>When there's a risk of an area code running out of phone numbers, an 'Overlay Area Code' is created that has the same geographic boundaries as the existing area code. In this case, the 518 code has been Overlayed with the 838 area code. New phone numbers in the Franklin Falls area will be assigned with one of these codes: 518 or 838. As a result, placing a call in the Franklin Falls area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<6>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/