Franklin Forge is a

census-designated place A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...

(CDP) in

Blair County Blair County is a County (United States), county in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 122,822. Its county seat is Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, Holli ...

Pennsylvania Pennsylvania, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a U.S. state, state spanning the Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern United States, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes region, Great Lakes regions o ...

, United States. It was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census. The CDP is in eastern Blair County, in the northwestern part of Woodbury Township. It is bordered to the northwest by Piney Creek, just upstream from the creek's confluence with the

Frankstown Branch Juniata River The Frankstown Branch Juniata River is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed August 8, 2011 tributary of the Juniata River in Blair and Huntingdon counties, Pennsylvania, ...

Ganister A ganister (or sometimes gannister ) is hard, fine-grained quartzose sandstone, or orthoquartzite,Jackson, J. A., 1997, ''Glossary of geology'', 4th ed. American Geological Institute, Alexandria. used in the manufacture of silica brick typically ...

. Wertz Road forms the northern boundary of the CDP, and Krajacic Lane is the western boundary. The community is west of

Williamsburg Williamsburg may refer to: Places *Colonial Williamsburg, a living-history museum and private foundation in Virginia *Williamsburg, Brooklyn, neighborhood in New York City *Williamsburg, former name of Kernville (former town), California *Williams ...

and by road northeast of

Hollidaysburg Hollidaysburg is a borough in and the county seat of Blair County in the U.S. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It is located on the Juniata River, south of Altoona and is part of the Altoona, Pennsylvania, metropolitan statistical area. In 1900 ...

Demographics

Education

It is in the

Williamsburg Community School District The Williamsburg Community School District is a small, rural, public school district in Blair County, Pennsylvania. It serves the borough of Williamsburg, plus the townships of Woodbury and Catharine. the district encompasses approximately . ...

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