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North Freedom, Wisconsin

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1991. It stands in North Freedom Village. It lies in ZIP code area 53951. It stands on Seeley Creek. The Survey maps it on the North Freedom quadrangle. 603 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 879 feet above sea level.

North Freedom within Sauk County

On record in North Freedom

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

North Freedom fell from 701 to 603 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.

YearPeople Change
2010701
2020603-98 (-14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 19 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.

Fires near this place

107 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 107 fires within 5 miles of North Freedom between 1992 and 2020, burning about 301 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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
Debris and open burning41
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Equipment and vehicle use14
Railroad operations and maintenance11
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Smoking5
Arson/incendiarism5
Recreation and ceremony4
Other causes2
Fireworks2
Natural1

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
4 September 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHAPPY HILL WHEAT
3 September 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 September 1997Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 August 1996Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 July 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 July 1999Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 July 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sauk County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of North Freedom: 6 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Flagstone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Brown Pit # 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Foley Brothers Rock Springs QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Alfred Boyles Flagstone QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
Bloss Stone Company QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
Illinois MineIronPast Producer1904, 1916
Illinois MineIronPast Producer1904
Sauk MineIronPast Producer
Sauk MineIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Sauk County

Storms near this place

11 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Freedom in 11 storm reports between 1997 and 2026: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 flood. 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
April 2026Thunderstorm WindNorth Freedom$100,000A portion of the Fire Department's roof torn off in North Freedom. A few mobile homes with roof damage. Several trees uprooted and many tree limbs and powerlines down. Some trees down on homes.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindNorth Freedom$25,000Numerous reports of multiple trees, limbs, and powerlines downed. The hardest hit areas were from North Freedom to Loganville to Baraboo. There was one report of roof damage to a garage and a chicken coop that was blown over.
September 2016FloodNorth Freedom$5,000The Baraboo River peaked around 22.6 feet on September 25th in Rock Springs. Floodwaters affected Highways DD, 154 and 136 in Rock Springs as well as Busser Park along Highway 136. More specifically highway 136 was closed between highway 33 and highway 154. A portion of highway 154 and DD was closed in Rock Springs. |Water is about 3.5 to 4 feet deep in the baseball diamond in Fireman's Park along Highway DD. Floodwaters affect some businesses, including the Post Office, on Highway 154 in Rock Springs. There was water in basements of some homes.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindNorth Freedom$5,000Trees and power lines down.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindNorth Freedom$5,000no account filed
August 2018Thunderstorm WindNorth Freedom$3,000At least six different locations of trees or large branches down on roads.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindNorth Freedom$1,000no account filed
April 2018HailNorth Freedom-no account filed
June 2011HailNorth Freedom-no account filed
May 2004HailNorth Freedom-no account filed
June 1997FloodNorth Freedom-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sauk 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
LaRue2.0 miles19
Rock Springs3.5 miles19
West Baraboo5.3 miles19
Black Hawk Manor5.8 miles19
Baraboo6.6 miles24
Dellwood7.3 miles17
Crawford Crossing7.4 miles24
The Courtyards7.4 miles16

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 North FreedomAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3085542The 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 1570440. 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.

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.