BlockFreeman, Minnesota
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Fisher Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56723. The Survey maps it on the Fisher quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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.
- 1952 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Fisher quadrangle1:24000
- 1966 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Crookston quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Storms near this place
10 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Freeman in 10 storm reports between 2007 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 funnel cloud, 1 tornado, 1 hail. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2022 | Lightning | Freeman | $15,000 | Lightning struck a pickup truck that was travelling southbound on US Highway 2. The driver was not injured; however, the truck caught fire and was destroyed. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Freeman | - | Measured wing gust on private weather station. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Freeman | - | Davis Personal Weather Station peak wind gust. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Freeman | - | Six power poles were blown down. Crop damage from wind driven hail was reported across eastern nesbit and western fanny townships. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Freeman | - | Peak wind gust was measured at a personal weather station. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Freeman | - | Large tree branches were blown down in most farmsteads and shelterbelts across eastern Fisher and western Lowell townships. |
| June 2010 | Tornado (EF1) | Freeman | - | A well defined tornado was viewed by an off duty SPC meteorologist. The tornado tracked northward intermittently for roughly 7 miles. The tornado snapped or uprooted numerous trees in shelterbelts and damaged farm buildings near the Fisher/Nesbit township border. Peak winds were estimated at 100 mph. |
| June 2022 | Hail | Freeman | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Funnel Cloud | Freeman | - | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Funnel Cloud | Freeman | - | no account filed |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 654712. 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.
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.