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Freelandville, Indiana

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Widner Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47535. The Survey maps it on the Bicknell quadrangle. 617 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 574 feet above sea level.

Freelandville within Knox County

On record in Freelandville

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Freelandville fell from 643 to 617 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010643
2020617-26 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 printed sheets

Matched 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.

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Freelandville: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Kixmiller Quarry and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Knox County

Storms near this place

18 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Freelandville in 18 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 11 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2008Thunderstorm WindFreelandville$200,000Two houses sustained significant damaged due to damaging thunderstorm winds. At one house the roof came off, the garage was destroyed, and both cars in the garage were destroyed. At the other house the garage was pulled away from the south side of the house and ended up on the north side. The garage doors were wrapped around trees and seven large pine trees were destroyed. The front porch also sustained damage. Several utility poles were also knocked down and damaged occurred to the roof of a high school. The scoreboard at the high school was destroyed.
March 2026FloodFreelandville$5,000High water report on State road 159 near Stoelting Road.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindFreelandville$5,000Downed trees and power lines were widespread in Freelandville.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindFreelandville$2,000Tree of unknown size downed by thunderstorm wind gusts.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindFreelandville$1,500A tree was downed onto power lines on State Road 159 due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
October 2013Thunderstorm WindFreelandville$1,500A tree was downed in this location due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. This tree took down power lines in front of a nursing home.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindFreelandville$1,000Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous trees.
October 2016HailFreelandville-This report was relayed from a social media post.
April 2015HailFreelandville-This report was relayed from the fire chief.
March 2009Thunderstorm WindFreelandville-State Road 58 was blocked by debris blown onto the road by thunderstorm winds in Freelandville. Exact location or details about the debris are unknown.
March 2009Thunderstorm WindFreelandville-Grain bins were blown down and a farmhouse was heavily damaged. The time of the event is estimated.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindFreelandville-Trees were downed.
September 2005Thunderstorm WindFreelandville-Several large limbs were downed.
February 2024HailFreelandville-no account filed
May 2014HailFreelandville-no account filed
March 2012HailFreelandville-no account filed
August 2001HailFreelandville-no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindFreelandville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Knox County

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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Wagner Station3.9 miles14
Westphalia4.3 miles14
Edwardsport4.6 miles14
Bicknell6.2 miles14
Sandborn6.7 miles13
Johnstown7.0 miles14
Oaktown7.2 miles15
Busseron7.9 miles15

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 FreelandvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5500959The 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 434813. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.