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Freeport, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Irving Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49325. The Survey maps it on the Freeport quadrangle. 542 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 787 feet above sea level.

Freeport within Barry County

Population over time

2 figures

Freeport grew from 483 to 542 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
2010483
2020542+59 (+12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

27 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Freeport between 1993 and 2020, burning about 133 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 were 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1

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
16 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFREEPORT AREA VFD 0000098 - 2019
20 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFREEPORT AREA VFD 0000079 - 2019
17 July 2012Misuse of fire by a minor4.1 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBARRY 02
7 May 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBARRY 02 - HARRIS CREEK RD GUN RANGE
2 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALTO-BOWNE TOWNSHIP FD 0000085 - 2018
13 May 1993Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCAMPBELL TOWNSHIP FD 65 - 2019
8 April 2009Debris and open burning6.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBARRY 05

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Barry County

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 Freeport: 1 past producer. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Stidham Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Barry County

Storms near this place

7 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Freeport in 7 storm reports between 2004 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash 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
April 2023HailFreeport$500,000Hail to around golf ball sized was reported in and near Freeport.
July 2011Flash FloodFreeport$250,000The Barry county road commission indicated that there were numerous road closures and washouts. Radar indicates that six to eight inches of rain fell across northeast and east Barry county.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindFreeport$30,000A barn door was blown in and numerous large trees were blown down near Freeport.
May 2004HailFreeport$15,000The general public reported three quarters inch diameter hail in Freeport.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindFreeport$2,000A large tree was blown down near Freeport.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindFreeport-Large tree down. Tree fell on a house.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindFreeport-A few powerlines down due to fallen trees.

Every storm recorded in Barry 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
Carlton4.3 miles12
Welcome Corner4.9 miles12
Irving7.7 miles13
Hastings8.4 miles12
Parmelee8.6 miles12
Coats Grove8.6 miles10
Middleville8.7 miles13
Woodland9.9 miles10

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 FreeportAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2133583The 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 626464. 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.

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.