Franklin Pennsylvania Map

About Franklin, Pennsylvania

Franklin is a locality in Venango County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a small community with a population of 278. The population density is 179.8 people per km². Franklin is located at 40.3420°N, 78.8838°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Franklin is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 15909, 15668, 16323.

Franklin occupies a landscape where the earth rises in slow, deliberate swells toward the distant, hazy blue silhouette of the Allegheny Mountains. It lies 23.6 miles southeast of Meadville, PA (from Meadville, PA: bearing 135°T), and is situated 6.9 miles west-southwest of Oil City. The French Creek carves a winding, serpentine path through the terrain, its currents pulling cool air through the lowlands and past the verdant, shaded canopy of the Clear Creek State Forest Kennerdell Tract. Within the immediate basin, the land settles into a quiet composure, punctuated by the refined greenery of Fountain Park, where the light at dusk catches the leaves and turns the atmosphere a deep, burnished bronze. Four miles to the west, the quiet depression of Haggerty Hollow holds the morning mist, while the nearby Polk Dam Lake remains a still, reflective mirror against the surrounding woodland.

Franklin bears the weight of a past forged in the sudden, frantic pulse of the early oil industry, a history that once transformed the quiet valley into a center of global commerce. Today, the economy has shifted away from that fevered extraction, leaving behind a pace of life that favors the steady labor of manufacturing and the quiet commerce of the courthouse square. The architecture retains the sturdy, brick-and-stone character of a place that expected to endure, with structures standing as silent observers to the changing seasons. Residents move with a measured, deliberate grace, their daily routines dictated less by the clock and more by the rhythm of the changing light as it shifts across the valley floor and fades behind the western ridges.

About This Franklin Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Franklin, Pennsylvania. Coordinates: 40.342041, -78.883782. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Franklin includes the ZIP code (15909, 15668, 16323), telephone area code (215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878), county seat of Venango County (Franklin), and school district assignment (Conemaugh Valley School District).

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.