BlockFreeman, Illinois
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Rutland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60136. The Survey maps it on the Pingree Grove quadrangle. It stands 899 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 17 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1925 USGS Elgin quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1940 USGS Elgin quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1962 USGS Elgin quadrangle1:62500
- 1962 USGS Pingree Grove quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Elgin quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Pingree Grove quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
689 words on this townshipHistory of Kane County, Ill., published 1908 names this settlement in its chapter on Rutland Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Gilbert Station was laid out and platted by Andrew Pingree and Elijah Wilcox in 1855. John Kelley acted as express agent and postmaster. He was afterward county sheriff. The first postmaster was John Mann, who was succeeded in the office by John McGraw, Nicholas Freeman and John Martin. The village of Pingree Grove was platted and laid out by Daniel and Hannah Pingree in 1882, and is now a village of five himdred or six hundred inhabitants.
Passage source: History of Kane County, Ill., published 1908.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Freeman: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hoffman Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Schuetz Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Landings | 1.2 miles | 18 | |
| Binnie Hills | 1.3 miles | 20 | |
| Binnie Lakes | 1.6 miles | 20 | |
| Gilberts | 1.7 miles | 20 | |
| Pingree Grove | 4.1 miles | 17 | |
| McQueen | 4.3 miles | 17 | |
| Wildwood Valley | 4.4 miles | 20 | |
| Starks | 4.4 miles | 17 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Freeman | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q20657802 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1816281. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.