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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.

Freeman within Langlade County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 printed 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

3,588 words on this township

History 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 1992

Regional 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/undetermined10
Debris and open burning9
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Other causes3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Natural1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Fireworks1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
1 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 August 1994Natural1.8 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 July 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestCAMPGROUND
10 July 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 June 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreChequamegon-Nicolet National ForestHUETTL
15 June 2006Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 June 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 May 2002Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Langlade County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2008HailFreeman-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Langlade 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
Choate2.0 miles11
Lily3.2 miles10
Pickerel4.4 miles10
Hollister7.3 miles8
Pearson10.0 miles10
Langlade12.2 miles9
Sherry Junction12.3 miles8
Four Corners12.5 miles8

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 FreemanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5500973The 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.