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Franklin City Park

Franklin City Park from directly overhead

Franklin City Park is a park in Nebraska, at a modelled elevation of 573 m. Blue Mound stands 629 m to the south-southwest, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Franklin County Veterans Memorial, a historic site 0.1 miles away. Heritage Highway runs past it. 38 named places lie within 25 miles, 3 of them named summits.

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Coordinates40.10052, -98.95357

On the Heritage Highway

Around it

38 named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves19

Ash Grove State Wildlife Management Area: 4.5 mi
Macon Lakes Federal Waterfowl Protection Area: 6.3 mi
Limestone Bluffs State Wildlife Management Area: 7.3 mi
Ritterbush Federal Waterfowl Production Area: 12.0 mi
Quadhamer Federal Waterfowl Protection Area: 16.5 mi

Parks11

Cedar Run ATV Trail: 13.9 mi
Harlan County Lake Recreation Area: 19.0 mi
Wilcox City Park: 21.6 mi
Walkers Ranch Historical Marker: 21.8 mi
Alma City Park: 22.0 mi

Museums4

Franklin County Museum: 0.2 mi
Webster County Historical Museum: 22.5 mi
Burlington Depot: 22.9 mi
Willa Cather House: 22.9 mi

Peaks3

Lookout Mountain: 4.8 mi
Indian Hill: 17.7 mi
Blue Mound: 20.6 mi

Historic sites1

Franklin County Veterans Memorial: 0.1 mi

On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Franklin City Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

Summit	Bearing	Elevation	Distance
Blue Mound	SSW 209°	629 m	20.6 mi
Indian Hill	WSW 256°	627 m	17.7 mi
Lookout Mountain	SSE 147°	624 m	4.8 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:40	19:12	19:48
June solstice	06:08	20:28	21:09
September equinox	07:24	18:59	19:35
December solstice	07:55	16:31	17:14

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Avg °F	26	30	40	50	61	72	77	74	66	52	39	29
Precip in	0.6	0.8	1.4	2.5	4.4	3.9	3.9	3.2	1.8	2.1	1.0	0.9

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Franklin #2, under a mile away.

Wildlife nearby

Virginia Opossum2 obs
Gopher Snake1 obs
tiger lily1 obs
Eastern Cottonwood1 obs
prickly lettuce1 obs
Western Conifer Seed Bug1 obs
Coleus1 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap Wikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/445841379

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