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Franklin County
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county in New York, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- New York
- Named after
- Benjamin Franklin
- Seat
- Malone
- Largest village
- Malone
- Total
- 1,697 sq mi (4,400 km )
- Land
- 1,629 sq mi (4,220 km )
- Water
- 68 sq mi (180 km ) 4.0%
- Estimate 2025
- 46,500
- Density
- 29/sq mi (11/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 ( EDT )
- Congressional district
- 21st
- Website
- www .franklincountyny .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Benjamin Franklin
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- New York
- Contains
- Malone
- Capital
- Malone
- Population
- 47555
- Area
- 4396
- Shares border with
- Essex County
- Official website
- www.franklincony.org
- Image
- Saranac Lake, NY - Broadway.jpg
- Households
- 18880
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- Commons category
- Franklin County, New York
- topic's main category
- Category:Franklin County, New York
- inception
- 1808-00-00
- category for people who died here
- Category:Deaths in Franklin County, New York
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Franklin County, New York
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Franklin County, New York
- water as percent of area
- 4
- native label
- Franklin County
- different from
- Franklin
- per capita income
- 26886
Sources (10)
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Encyclopedic overview
Franklin County is a county on the northern border of the U.S. state of New York. To the north across the Canada–United States border are the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario, from east to west. As of the 2020 census, the county population was 47,555. Its county seat is Malone. The county is named in honor of the United States Founding Father Benjamin Franklin. The county is part of the North Country region of the state.
Franklin County comprises the Malone, NY Micropolitan Statistical Area. Much of Franklin County is within Adirondack Park. Within the border of the county is the St. Regis Mohawk Reservation, or Akwesasne in the Mohawk language. Its population was nearly 3,300 in the 2010 census. The people are linked by community and history with the Mohawk of the Akwesasne reserve across the river, spanning the border of Quebec and Ontario. The Mohawk have had authority under the Jay Treaty to freely cross this international border.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Franklin County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.