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Freeland, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Tittabawassee Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48623. The Survey maps it on the Auburn quadrangle. 7,630 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 620 feet above sea level.

Freeland within Saginaw County

Population over time

3 figures

Freeland grew from 5,147 to 7,630 between 2000 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
20005,147
20106,969+1,822 (+35%)
20207,630+661 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

Fires near this place

22 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Freeland between 2011 and 2020, burning about 27 acres in total. 10 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Natural10
Equipment and vehicle use6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Debris and open burning2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 August 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTITTABAWASSEE TWP FD 439 - 2018
23 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTITTABAWASSEE TWP FD 441 - 2020
22 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTITTABAWASSEE TWP FD 436 - 2020
12 July 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTITTABAWASSEE TWP FD 358 - 2020
1 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTITTABAWASSEE TWP FD 382 - 2018
26 June 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTITTABAWASSEE TWP FD 372 - 2018
27 May 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTHOMAS TOWNSHIP FD 322 - 2019
2 May 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTITTABAWASSEE TWP FD 258 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Saginaw County

Storms near this place

24 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Freeland in 24 storm reports between 1995 and 2017: 13 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 2 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
May 1998Thunderstorm WindFreeland$1,000,000no account filed
July 2006Thunderstorm WindFreeland$60,000A local newspaper reported numerous accounts of trees blown down across Thomas, James, and Saginaw Townships. Several homes were damaged along the Geddes and Thomas road areas. One home sustained significant damage and a destroyed garage. Another Thomas Township home's garage wall bowed out. A fallen tree also destroyed a parked vehicle in James Township. No injuries were reported. Total property damage was roughly estimated at $60K.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindFreeland$10,000Large tree limbs reported down.
March 2006FloodFreeland$7,000no account filed
June 2017FloodFreeland-Moderate flooding occurred along the Saginaw River, as the river crested at 18.69 feet on June 26th at 3 AM EDT. 36 homes were damaged, with 10 roads and bridges damaged or destroyed. Near record flooding occurred along the Tittabawassee River.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindFreeland-Large tree limbs and a large tree were reported blown down.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindFreeland-A spotter estimated a 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindFreeland-Several trees were reported blown down.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindFreeland-Several trees were blown down.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindFreeland-A wind gust of 58 mph was measured at the Saginaw International Airport.
June 2005HailFreeland-Trained spotter also estimated a 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindFreeland-Several trees and tree limbs were blown down.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindFreeland-Trees and power lines blew down and some property owners reported damage to their barns and homes.
August 1995Thunderstorm WindFreeland-A spotter measured a wind gust to 66 mph.
August 2011HailFreeland-no account filed
August 2010HailFreeland-no account filed
June 2008HailFreeland-no account filed
June 2007HailFreeland-no account filed
March 2006HailFreeland-no account filed
July 2003HailFreeland-no account filed
July 1998HailFreeland-no account filed
July 1997Thunderstorm WindFreeland-no account filed
May 1997HailFreeland-no account filed
August 1995Thunderstorm WindFreeland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Saginaw 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
Dice4.1 miles15
Frost5.0 miles15
Lawndale5.6 miles15
Shattuckville6.3 miles15
Shields8.3 miles15
Iva8.9 miles12
Hemlock9.5 miles15
Kochville9.5 miles13

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 FreelandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2862998The 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 626455. 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.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

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.