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Freeburg, Missouri

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65035. The Survey maps it on the Freeburg quadrangle. 409 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 902 feet above sea level.

Freeburg within Osage County

Population over time

2 figures

Freeburg fell from 437 to 409 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
2010437
2020409-28 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

7 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Freeburg between 1993 and 2014, burning about 70 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
2 April 1995Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
11 April 1993Debris and open burning35 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
9 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
18 March 2014Debris and open burning6.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
18 March 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
10 March 2014Debris and open burning10 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
26 January 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Osage County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Freeburg: 7 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown - ClayFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Unknown - ClayFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Unknown - ClayFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Unknown - ClayFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Unknown - ClayFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer

Every working recorded in Osage County

Storms near this place

10 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Freeburg in 10 storm reports between 1994 and 2018: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 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
June 1994Thunderstorm WindFreeburg$5,000Large tree limbs were snapped off and power lines were blown down.
April 1994Thunderstorm WindFreeburg$5,000Strong winds tore away part of the roof off several barns.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindFreeburg-A line of severe thunderstorms moved through Osage County. A metal outbuilding was destroyed in Freeburg. In the Linn area, several trees were either uprooted or snapped off. One large tree fell blocking U.S. Highway 50 west of Linn. One tree in Linn fell onto a house and a nearby barn causing roof damage to both. Also, windows at the Osage Ambulance District building were broken from fallen tree limbs.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindFreeburg-Thunderstorm winds blew down several large tree limbs onto County Road 636.
May 2009Flash FloodFreeburg-Between 2 and 3 inches of rain fell in a short amount of time causing flash flooding. Highway 89 had two feet of water over it about 4 miles north of Belle.
April 1998HailFreeburg-3/4 inch hail fell for about 10 minutes in Freeburg.
March 1998Thunderstorm WindFreeburg-Wind gusts from a line of thunderstorms blew the camper off a pickup truck. A truck trailer was also damaged.
May 2018HailFreeburg-no account filed
April 2006HailFreeburg-no account filed
April 1998HailFreeburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Osage 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
Gascondy3.5 miles17
Daggetts Ford (historical)4.0 miles17
Argyle5.5 miles17
Rich Fountain6.0 miles17
Koeltztown6.4 miles17
Koenig8.7 miles17
Westphalia9.7 miles17
Judge10.5 miles17

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 FreeburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2152976The 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 729312. 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.