Freeman, Wisconsin
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Langlade town. It lies in ZIP code area 54491. It stands on East Branch Lily River. The Survey maps it on the Lily quadrangle. It stands 1,496 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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.
- 1942 USGS Pearson quadrangle1:48000
- 1950 USGS Lily quadrangle1:48000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Iron Mountain quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Iron Mountain quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1973 USGS Lily quadrangle1:24000
- 1990 USGS Wabeno quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
3,588 words on this townshipHistory of Langlade County, Wisconsin, from U. S. Government Survey to Present Time, with Biographical Sketches, published 1922 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Langlade Town covers the township.
Read the chapter on Langlade Town - 3,588 words.
Fires near this place
47 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Freeman between 1992 and 2019, burning about 153 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 were 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Debris and open burning | 9 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Other causes | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 August 1994 | Natural | 1.8 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 July 2003 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest | CAMPGROUND |
| 10 July 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 27 June 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest | HUETTL |
| 15 June 2006 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 10 June 1992 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 May 2002 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Freeman in 1 storm report in 2008: 1 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2008 | Hail | Freeman | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Choate | 2.0 miles | 11 | |
| Lily | 3.2 miles | 10 | |
| Pickerel | 4.4 miles | 10 | |
| Hollister | 7.3 miles | 8 | |
| Pearson | 10.0 miles | 10 | |
| Langlade | 12.2 miles | 9 | |
| Sherry Junction | 12.3 miles | 8 | |
| Four Corners | 12.5 miles | 8 |
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 Freeman | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5500973 | 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 1579293. 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.
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.





