Freedom, Oklahoma
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the West Woods census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73842. It stands on Houston Creek. The Survey maps it on the Freedom quadrangle. 174 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,529 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresFreedom fell from 289 to 174 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 289 | |
| 2020 | 174 | -115 (-40%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 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.
- 1955 USGS Woodward quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Woodward quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1970 USGS Freedom quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Freedom: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
60 of 75 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Freedom in 75 storm reports between 1993 and 2022: 54 thunderstorm wind, 19 hail, 1 lightning, 1 heavy rain. The reports record 4 injuries. 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 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Freedom | 4 hurt | Evening and late night thunderstorms in northwest Oklahoma dropped hail as large as quarters one mile east of Catesby in Ellis County. A few hours later a wind gust was measured at 84 mph at the Oklahoma Mesonet site in west of Freedom in Woodward County. Some damage from the strong winds was reported in Freedom, including highline poles downed, windows blown out of a house, and a large tree downed onto a camper. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Freedom | $20,000 | The wind damage was reported from one to five miles north of town. Numerous power lines were blown down. A roof was blown off of a barn and off of two houses. Monetary damages were estimated. |
| March 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Freedom | $5,000 | Power poles/lines were downed. |
| October 1998 | Lightning | Freedom | $3,000 | Lightning struck the basement of a house blowing a hole in the concrete and destroying a television, VCR, satellite, telephones, and all of the electrical wiring in the house. |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Freedom | $1,500 | An eight to ten inch diameter tree trunk was split into two pieces. |
| April 2015 | Hail | Freedom | - | No damage reports. |
| April 2015 | Hail | Freedom | - | No damage reports. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Freedom | - | The public estimated wind gusts around 60 mph. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Freedom | - | The wind gust was measured at the May Ranch mesonet site. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Freedom | - | The wind gust was measured at the May Ranch mesonet site. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Freedom | - | The wind gust was measured at the May Ranch mesonet site. |
| September 2008 | Heavy Rain | Freedom | - | The measured rainfall was 3.74 inches, much of it falling in a six to eight hour period. |
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Freedom | - | Wind gust was measured by the Mays Ranch Oklahoma mesonet station. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Freedom | - | Wind gust was measured by the Oklahoma mesonet. |
| May 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Freedom | - | Wind was measured by the Oklahoma mesonet. |
| April 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Freedom | - | Wind was measured by the Oklahoma mesonet. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Freedom | - | Wind was measured by the Oklahoma Mesonet. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Freedom | - | Wind was measured by the Oklahoma Mesonet. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Freedom | - | Wind was measured by the Oklahoma Mesonet. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Freedom | - | Wind was measured by the Oklahoma mesonet. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Freedom | - | Wind was measured by the Oklahoma mesonet. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Freedom | - | Wind was measured by the Oklahoma mesonet. |
| May 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Freedom | - | Wind was measured by Oklahoma mesonet. |
| May 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Freedom | - | Wind was measured by Oklahoma mesonet. |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Freedom | - | Winds between 58 mph and 67 mph were measured by the Oklahoma mesonet. |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Freedom | - | Wind was measured by the Oklahoma mesonet. |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Freedom | - | Wind was measured by the Oklahoma mesonet. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Freedom | - | Measured by Oklahoma Mesonet. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Freedom | - | Measured by Oklahoma Mesonet. |
| April 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Freedom | - | measured at the Oklahoma Mesonet site |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Freedom | - | measured at the Oklahoma Mesonet site. |
| September 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Freedom | - | A severe thunderstorm in Woods County downed two-inch tree limbs eight miles north of Freedom. |
| June 2022 | Hail | Freedom | - | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Freedom | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Hail | Freedom | - | no account filed |
| February 2012 | Hail | Freedom | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Freedom | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Freedom | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Freedom | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Freedom | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Freedom | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Freedom | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Freedom | - | no account filed |
| October 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Freedom | - | no account filed |
| October 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Freedom | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Freedom | - | no account filed |
| March 2008 | Hail | Freedom | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Freedom | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Freedom | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Hail | Freedom | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Freedom | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | Freedom | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Freedom | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Freedom | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Freedom | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Freedom | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Freedom | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Freedom | - | no account filed |
| September 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Freedom | - | no account filed |
| September 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Freedom | - | 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.
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 Freedom | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1919722 | The 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 1093038. 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.
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.



