Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Louisiana
- Parish
- St. Mary
- Mayor
- Eugene P. Foulcard (Democrat)
- Total
- 10.49 sq mi (27.17 km )
- Land
- 9.92 sq mi (25.70 km )
- Water
- 0.57 sq mi (1.48 km )
- Elevation
- 10 ft (3.0 m)
- Density
- 678.1/sq mi (261.82/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-6 ( CST )
- Summer dst
- UTC-5 ( CDT )
- Fips code
- 22-27155
- Website
- www .franklin-la .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city in the United States
- Official name
- Franklin
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- St. Mary Parish
- Population
- 6728
- Area
- 27.173579
- Elevation
- 3
- Body of water
- Bayou Teche
- Capital of
- St. Mary Parish
- Official website
- www.franklin-la.com
- Image
- Main street in Franklin.jpg
- Households
- 2650
- Dialing code
- 337
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- Commons category
- Franklin, Louisiana
- postal code
- 70538
- inception
- 1808-01-01
- different from
- Franklin Parish
- water as percent of area
- 5.4353
- per capita income
- 22244
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Encyclopedic overview
Franklin is a small city in and the parish seat of St. Mary Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 6,134 as of 2025. The city is located on Bayou Teche, southeast of the cities of Lafayette, 47 miles (76 km) and New Iberia, 28 miles (45 km), and 22 miles (35 km) northwest of Morgan City. It is part of the Morgan City Micropolitan Statistical Area and the larger Lafayette-Acadiana combined statistical area.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Franklin” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.