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Freedom Station, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Freedom Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44288. The Survey maps it on the Ravenna quadrangle.

Freedom Station within Portage County

Then and now

1906 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Freedom Station, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Freedom Station, surveyed 1906

Compare 1906 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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.

In the county-history sources

3,035 words on this township

History of Portage County, Ohio, published 1885 names this settlement in its chapter on Freedom Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

In the southwestern quarter of the township there is an extensive limestone ridge, from which an excellent quality of lime has been made. Timber from the earliest time has been very plentiful, affording good material for the manufacture of wooden-ware, rakes, etc. The country is well adapted for grazing, and the attention of the farmers is turning considerably in that direction. Mflch fruit is raised, particularly apples. There is very little waterpower in the township, but at one time there were five saw-mills in operation. The New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio Railroad passes through the southeastern corner of the township, touching at Freedom Station, which affords an excellent shipping point for the various products.

Passage source: History of Portage County, Ohio, published 1885.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Freedom Township.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 554 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 554 specimens collected within 10 miles of Freedom Station between 1883 and 1975: 419 Animalia, 129 Plantae, 4 Unrecorded, 2 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Huryn, A. F. Clewell, A. Woolman 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Pyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)Pyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)1884G. DeanGarretsville
Specimen of Botrychium virginianum (L.) Sw.Botrychium virginianum (L.) Sw.1904Rood, Almon N.; Roscoe J. WebbFreedom Twp
Specimen of Botrychium dissectum Spreng.Botrychium dissectum Spreng.1924Webb, Roscoe J.Alford's Glen
A photograph of the species Colaptes auratus, not of this specimenColaptes auratus luteus Bangs, 18981883John C. CatlinRavenna
A photograph of the species Dolichonyx oryzivorus, not of this specimenDolichonyx oryzivorus (Linnaeus, 1758)1883John C. CatlinRavenna
A photograph of the species Lepidozia reptans, not of this specimenLepidozia reptans (L.) Dumort.1884Czekaj
A photograph of the species Melanerpes carolinus, not of this specimenMelanerpes carolinus (Linnaeus, 1758)1885Collector(s): S. N. DentonWindham
A photograph of the species Glaucomys volans, not of this specimenGlaucomys volans volans (Linnaeus, 1758)1889C. P. StreatorRavenna
A photograph of the species Ambloplites rupestris, not of this specimenAmbloplites rupestris (Rafinesque, 1817)1893A. WoolmanCuyahoga River, Mantau, Ohio
A photograph of the species Ambystoma maculatum, not of this specimenAmbystoma maculatum (Shaw, 1802)1893not recordedGarrettsville
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1893A. WoolmanCuyahoga River, Mantau, Ohio
A photograph of the species Esox americanus, not of this specimenEsox americanus vermiculatus Lesueur, 18461893A. WoolmanCuyahoga River, Mantau, Ohio

All 554 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Freedom Station: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Charlestown Sand and Gravel, Inc.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Portage 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
Freedom2.1 miles15
Drakesburg2.2 miles15
Greenleafs Corners (historical)2.2 miles13
Maple Del Manor2.8 miles15
Charlestown2.9 miles15
Augerburg3.1 miles15
Countryside Estates3.5 miles15
Blackbrook Valley Estates4.1 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1040667. 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.

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.

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.