Do you know of Freeland ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Freeland. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Freeland.
Our sources for Freeland (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Freeland other than they indicate that Freeland would be found somewhere in DeKalb County, Illinois.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1855 and closed in 1886.
This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.
Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.
Communities Also Named Freeland ...
We found fourteen communities that share the name Freeland.
Within Illinois, the name Freeland is unique.
Beyond Illinois, we know of another fourteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these fourteen communities, twelve are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Colorado
- Clear Creek County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Freeland [Clear Creek County].
- Louisiana
- West Feliciana Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Freeland [West Feliciana Parish].
- Maryland
- Baltimore County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Freeland [Baltimore County].
- Michigan
- Saginaw County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Freeland [Saginaw County].
- Missouri
- Carter County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Freeland [Carter County].
- North Carolina
- Brunswick County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Freeland [Brunswick County].
- Ohio
- Muskingum County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Freeland [Muskingum County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Freeland.
- Pennsylvania
- Luzerne County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Freeland [Luzerne County].
- Prince Edward Island
- Please visit our profile page for the Prince Edward Island community of Freeland.
- Tennessee
- Henry County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Freeland [Henry County].
- Texas
- Johnson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Freeland [Johnson County].
- Washington
- Island County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Freeland [Island County].
- Wyoming
- Colorado
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Freeland ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Freeland:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
Map from 1870 (unknown title/publisher)
More Orphans in DeKalb County ...
Can you help?
As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in DeKalb County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer. Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name. Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time. Also keep in mind that Freeland could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |