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Freeport, Minnesota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Freeport City. It lies in ZIP code area 56331. The Survey maps it on the Freeport quadrangle. 675 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,243 feet above sea level.

Freeport within Stearns County

On record in Freeport

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Freeport grew from 632 to 675 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
2010632
2020675+43 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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.

In the county-history sources

129 words on this township

History of Stearns County, Minnesota, published 1915 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Freeport City covers the township.

Read the chapter on Freeport City - 129 words.

Fires near this place

1 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Freeport in 1997, burning about 7 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Arson/incendiarism1

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
9 May 1997Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stearns County

Storms near this place

9 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Freeport in 9 storm reports between 1999 and 2023: 5 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2012HailFreeport$100,000Large hail stones, up to two inches in diameter, pelted the town of Freeport, Minnesota for several minutes and caused damage to electrical lines, and cars. The hail also accumulated up to 7 inches deep in some areas of town.
May 2014Flash FloodFreeport-There were numerous reports of flooded roadways between Albany and Freeport. This included County Roads 157 and 172 which were closed during the height of the storm. Also there were reports of debris partially covering county roads from local creeks near the same areas. The flooded roads also sustained some damage. Two to three feet of flowing water was reported on the west side of Albany along County Road 157.
July 2011Flash FloodFreeport-Parts of County Road 157 were closed due to flooding from morning rainfall.
September 2005HailFreeport-Dime to quarter sized hail fell.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindFreeport-Several large trees downed, including one which fell onto a house, breaking through the roof. Estimated windspeed.
July 2023HailFreeport-no account filed
May 2012HailFreeport-no account filed
June 2002Funnel CloudFreeport-no account filed
June 1999HailFreeport-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Stearns 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
New Munich4.0 miles10
Saint Anthony4.4 miles9
Saint Rosa4.9 miles10
Melrose6.3 miles10
Albany6.8 miles9
Saint Francis8.7 miles10
Meire Grove9.8 miles10
Greenwald9.9 miles8

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 Q922347The 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 643925. 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.