Franklin County, Arkansas

administration
Franklin County Courthouse in Ozark
US state :	Arkansas
Administrative headquarters :	Ozark (northern district), Charleston , (southern district)
Address of the administrative headquarters:	County Courthouse 211 W. Commercial Street Ozark, AR 72949-3233
Foundation :	December 19, 1837
Made up from:	Crawford County
Area code :	001 479
Demographics
Residents :	18,125 (2010)
Population density :	11.5 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	1605 km²
Water surface :	26 km²
map

Franklin County Courthouse in Charleston

The Mulberry Bridge over the Mulberry River , listed in the NRHP

The Franklin County is a county in the US state of Arkansas . With Ozark and Charleston , the county has two county seats .

geography

The county lies on the Ozark - Plateau in the central northwestern Arkansas, is in the north about 80 km from Missouri , to the west about 40 km from Oklahoma away and has an area of 1,605 square kilometers, of which 26 square kilometers is water. It borders on the following counties:

	Madison County
Crawford County		Johnson County
Sebastian County		Logan County

history

B. Franklin

Franklin County was formed on December 19, 1837 from parts of Crawford County. It was named after Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790), one of the founding fathers of the USA.

In 1871 Logan County was founded on part of what was then larger Franklin County.

The county originally only had one courthouse in Ozark. The second was added in Charleston in the 1890s.

German and Swiss immigrants brought with them the knowledge of wine production, for which the county is still known today.

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1900	17,395	-
1910	20,638	18.6%
1920	19,364	-6.2%
1930	15,762	-18.6%
1940	15,683	-0.5%
1950	12,358	-21.2%
1960	10,213	-17.4%
1970	11.301	10.7%
1980	14,705	30.1%
1990	14,897	1.3%
2000	17,771	19.3%
2010	18,125	2%
1900-1990 2000 2010

Demographic data

According to the 2010 census , Franklin County had 18,125 people in 6,800 households. The population density was 11.5 inhabitants per square kilometer.

The racial the population was composed of 95.0 percent white, 0.7 percent African American, 1.0 percent Native American, 0.9 percent Asian and other ethnic groups; 1.7 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 2.0 percent of the population.

Statistically, 2.63 people lived in each of the 6,800 households.

24.2 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 58.7 percent were between 18 and 64 and 17.1 percent were 65 years or older. 50.6 percent of the population was female.

The median income for a household was 31,666 USD . The per capita income was $ 17,266. 18.8 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.