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Upland is a small village in northeastern Franklin County, incorporated in 1894. Its name is said to reflect the town's relatively high local elevation, though the exact founding circumstances beyond its incorporation date aren't well documented in available records. Downtown Upland sits along Prairie Avenue. With a 2020 population of 125, the village has seen a long, steady decline from 179 residents in 2000, a pattern common across many of Franklin County's smaller communities.
Upland's history is thinner in the record than some of its Franklin County neighbors, but its descriptive, elevation-based name is a distinctive detail among the county's mostly person-named towns. It remains a small, quiet agricultural community today.