BlockFrom the record
One of 8 National Register listings published here for McLean County · listed in 2014 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Freborg Homestead
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.
The listing
- Address. 3231 2nd St., NW., Underwood, 58576
- When was it listed? September 2014
- Category. building
- Township. Longfellow township
- National Register reference number. 14000625 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Storms near this property
26 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Underwood, the town this property stands in, in 26 storm reports between 1995 and 2020: 14 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado. 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 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Underwood | $500,000 | Thunderstorm wind gust speed was based on damage photos. Multiple roofs were damaged. Large trees were snapped and uprooted, and one tree landed on a car and crushed it. Various other vehicles were damaged by falling trees and limbs. A camper was overturned. |
| August 2006 | Tornado (F2) | Underwood | $200,000 | This low end F2 tornado, on the order of 120 mph, produced considerable damage to a farm house and outbuildings 9 miles southwest of Underwood. The attached garage was completely torn from the two story house, and the roofing materials were also torn away, leaving the trusses visible. One detached shop, garden shed, and well house were destroyed. Items from the property were found 1/2 mile away. Nearby power lines were down. National Weather Service personnel conducted storm surveys of the area on two different days. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Underwood | $110,000 | A large swath of power poles along Highway 85 were snapped. |
| September 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Underwood | $15,000 | A partially build garage was damaged by the strong winds. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Underwood | $15,000 | Severe criteria winds lasted the whole period with the peak gust estimated at 80 mph. Numerous trees down, especially on the west side of the city. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Underwood | $3,000 | Large tree branches were down. |
| July 2011 | Tornado (EF0) | Underwood | - | A brief tornado touched down near Underwood but did not impact any structures. No damage was reported with this tornado. |
| June 2009 | Tornado (EF0) | Underwood | - | A brief tornado touchdown occurred in open country. The tornado impacted no structures and so no damage was done. |
| August 2006 | Hail | Underwood | - | 65 mph winds were also reported along with the large hail. |
| August 2000 | Hail | Underwood | - | Hail lasted 20 minutes. |
| June 1999 | Tornado (F0) | Underwood | - | touch down in open field. no damage. |
| June 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Underwood | - | Strong winds from a severe thunderstorm tore the roof off a large pole barn at the Coal Creek Station power plant. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Underwood | - | Strong winds knocked down 100 year old tree. |
| July 2019 | Hail | Underwood | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Underwood | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Hail | Underwood | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Underwood | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Underwood | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Underwood | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Underwood | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Underwood | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Underwood | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Underwood | - | no account filed |
| September 2000 | Hail | Underwood | - | no account filed |
| September 2000 | Hail | Underwood | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Underwood | - | no account filed |
Map coverage status
No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 14000625 in Record Group 79. |
| McLean County | All 8 listed properties in this county. |
Provenance
- Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
- Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
- How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
- 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.