Franklin Township
Franklin Township is a township in Carbon County, Pennsylvania. It is part of Northeastern Pennsylvania. The population was 4,262 at the 2010 census. A portion of Beltzville State Park is in Franklin Township.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality with 4,360 residents
- Description: township in Carbon County, Pennsylvania
- Also known as: “Franklin Township, Carbon County, Pennsylvania” and “Township of Franklin”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bear Mountain.
Bear Mountain
Peak
Bear Mountain, in the Lehigh Valley of Pennsylvania several miles above the Lehigh Gap, is a steep-sided east bank ridgeline running about 9.96 miles between the hairpin turn in the Lehigh the Lenape Amerindian people visualized as a bear's snout, along many water gap gorges, to the steep face dropping down to the Penn Forest Reservoir. Bear Mountain is situated 2½ miles northwest of Franklin Township.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lehighton and Jim Thorpe.
Lehighton
Photo: Doug Kerr, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lehighton is a borough in the Coal Region, near Jim Thorpe, Allentown and the Lehigh Valley, in the state of Pennsylvania in the United States of America.
Jim Thorpe
Jim Thorpe is a borough in the Coal Region, near Lehighton, Allentown and the Lehigh Valley, in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.
Parryville
Village
Photo: Doug Kerr, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Parryville is a borough in Carbon County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is part of Northeastern Pennsylvania, and is located 3 miles southeast of Lehighton and 1 mile north of Bowmanstown, off Route 248 and 4 miles northwest of Palmerton. Parryville is situated 2½ miles south of Franklin Township.
Franklin Township
- Category: township of Pennsylvania
- Location: Carbon County, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From French to Vietnamese—“Franklin Township” goes by many names.
- French: “Franklin Township”
- German: “Franklin Township”
- Spanish: “Municipio de Franklin (condado de Carbon, Pensilvania)”
- Spanish: “Municipio de Franklin”
- Ukrainian: “Франклін Тауншип”
- Vietnamese: “Xã Franklin, Quận Carbon, Pennsylvania”
- Vietnamese: “Xã Franklin”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Beltzville Dam and Kriss Pines Lake.
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