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.

[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.

[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.