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Freedom, Ohio
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Pulaski Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43506. The Survey maps it on the Bryan quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Then and now
1914 to 1986The same ground, surveyed 72 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 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.
- 1914 USGS Bryan quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Bryan quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Bryan quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Bryan quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Bryan quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Bryan quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Defiance quadrangle1:100000
In the 1905 county history
3,683 words on this townshipThe county history of 1905 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Pulaski Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Pulaski Township - 3,683 words.
Fires nearby
1 since 2002The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Freedom (historical) between 2002 and 2002, burning about 0 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 October 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 126 shownMuseums hold 126 specimens collected within 10 miles of Freedom (historical) between 1890 and 1974: 122 Animalia, 3 Fungi, 1 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adler, K. K., Anson A. Hinkley, C.H. Kennedy and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.
| Image | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Puccinia angustata Peck | 1902 | W. A. Kellerman | |
 | Puccinia helianthi Schwein. | 1902 | W. A. Kellerman | |
 | Elimia livescens (Menke, 1830) | 1916 | Anson A. Hinkley | St. Joseph River, Edgerton, North America |
 | Plowrightia morbosa (Schwein.) Sacc. | 1890 | Woodard Edwin | Stryker |
 | Ericymba buccata Cope, 1865 | 1893 | P. Kirsch | St. Joseph River, Edgerton, Ohio |
 | Notropis atherinoides Rafinesque, 1818 | 1893 | P. Kirsch | St. Joseph River, Edgerton, Ohio |
 | Noturus miurus Jordan, 1877 | 1893 | P. Kirsch | St. Joseph River, Edgerton, Ohio |
 | Pimephales notatus (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1893 | P. Kirsch | St. Josephs River, Edgerton, Ohio |
 | Sciurus niger Linnaeus, 1758 | 1926 | Collector(s): unknown | No specific locality recorded |
 | Acris crepitans Baird, 1854 | 1927 | Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) | Near Stryker, Williams Co., Ohio |
 | Rana clamitans Latreille, 1801 | 1927 | Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) | Near Stryker, Williams Co., Ohio |
 | Sturnus vulgaris Linnaeus, 1758 | 1927 | Price, H. (Homer) | Evansport, Williams, Ohio, USA |
All 126 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plover Lake Addition | 1.1 miles | 13 | |
| Holly Addition | 1.1 miles | 13 | |
| Rachel Heights | 2.9 miles | 13 | |
| Williams Center | 2.9 miles | 13 | |
| Oak Meadows | 2.9 miles | 13 | |
| Bryan | 3.2 miles | 13 | |
| Pleasant Meadows | 4.0 miles | 13 | |
| Willow Glenn | 4.1 miles | 13 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1055244. 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.
Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.