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Freeman, Missouri

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Dolan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64746. The Survey maps it on the Freeman quadrangle. 475 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 873 feet above sea level.

Freeman within Cass County

Population over time

2 figures

Freeman fell from 482 to 475 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
2010482
2020475-7 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 19 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

2 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Freeman in 1992, burning about 2 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 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
14 March 1992Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
14 March 1992Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cass County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Freeman: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Harrisonville Birch PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
West Line QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cass County

Storms near this place

31 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Freeman in 31 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 13 hail, 13 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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 2003Tornado (F1)Freeman1 hurt, $1,000,000Tornado touched down 1 mile southeast of Freeman with F0 to F1 damage along a three mile track to 2 miles north northeast of Freeman where it lifted. Several RV's were flipped over in a RV park with one person injured. Tornado also did substantial damage to empty fuel tanks at a fuel farm, adjacent to the RV park.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindFreeman$50,000Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 70 mph. Tree and house damage was reported. Damage was reported to a gas station.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindFreeman$2,000Power lines down.
October 2024Thunderstorm WindFreeman-Downed power lines and outages in the Freeman area.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindFreeman-Medium sized tree limbs downed near Freeman.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindFreeman-Tree limbs downed south of Freeman per the Cass County EM.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindFreeman-Tree limbs downed south of Freeman per the Cass County EM.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindFreeman-Downed wires and power outages near Southfork Drive.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindFreeman-Downed wires and power outages near Route D.
February 2023Thunderstorm WindFreeman-Strong thunderstorm winds from a squall line downed a cottonwood tree, blocking a road, near Lake Annette.
April 2021Flash FloodFreeman-After 1 to 2 inches of rain fell over a short period of time there was some flooding in Freeman, Missouri in the Van Buren Road area.
July 2017FloodFreeman-A large furniture truck was stuck in flooded waters along E 293rd Street just west of S Grand River Road. Two occupants of the truck were stranded and needed rescue from local emergency crews. The rescue was caught on live TV.
May 2016Flash FloodFreeman-Six inches of water was running over Highway W just east of Highway O.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindFreeman-Winds were estimated to be 60 mph.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindFreeman-Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 65 mph.
June 2007Flash FloodFreeman-Water was reported rising rapidly with evacuations needed.
September 2005Thunderstorm WindFreeman-Large tree down.
March 2018HailFreeman-no account filed
February 2011HailFreeman-no account filed
July 2010HailFreeman-no account filed
May 2010HailFreeman-no account filed
April 2008HailFreeman-no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindFreeman-no account filed
April 2005HailFreeman-no account filed
September 2003HailFreeman-no account filed
May 2003HailFreeman-no account filed
May 2003HailFreeman-no account filed
August 2003HailFreeman-no account filed
August 2003HailFreeman-no account filed
May 1996HailFreeman-no account filed
May 1996HailFreeman-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cass 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
Lake Annette2.5 miles19
Prettyman3.9 miles14
West Line4.3 miles19
Cleveland6.3 miles19
Lisle6.7 miles19
Peculiar7.4 miles14
Rural Home (historical)7.7 miles14
Old Peculiar7.7 miles14

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 FreemanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q586330The 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 729891. 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.