Ben Franklin, Texas

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Ben Franklin is an unincorporated community in Delta County, Texas, United States.^[1] According to the Handbook of Texas,^{[citation needed]} the community had a population of 75 in 2000.

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Ben Franklin, Texas
Unincorporated community
Ben Franklin United Methodist Church in October 2015
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Country	United States
State	Texas
County	Delta
Elevation ^[1]	486 ft (148 m)
Time zone	UTC-6 (Central (CST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code(s)	903 & 430
GNIS feature ID	1351867^[1]

The population was 75 in 2010 and 2017.^[2]

The local Methodist church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.^[3]

On April 2, 1957, an F2 tornado destroyed six homes and damaged several others in Ben Franklin. Two people were injured and losses totaled $25,000. This and a previous event may have belonged to the same family. Grazulis listed the tornado as the same as the Ambia–Harmon F2s, considering all three to be a 30-mile-long (48 km) F3 event. One death was reported.^[4]

Ben Franklin is located at the intersection of Farm to Market Roads 38 and 128 on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, 4 mi (6.4 km) northeast of Pecan Gap, 11 mi (18 km) north of Cooper, 16 mi (26 km) southwest of Paris, and 77 mi (124 km) northeast of Dallas in northwestern Delta County.^[2]