Do you know of Freedom ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Freedom. 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 Freedom.
Our sources for Freedom (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 Freedom other than they indicate that Freedom would be found somewhere in Butler County, Kansas.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1874 and closed in 1900.
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 Freedom ...
We found 34 communities that share the name Freedom.
There is one other community in Kansas which is also named Freedom.
Beyond Kansas, we know of another 33 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 33 communities, 33 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Located In Kansas ...
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alberta
- Please visit our profile page for the Alberta community of Freedom.
- California
- Santa Cruz County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Freedom [Santa Cruz County].
- Idaho
- Caribou County
- Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Freedom [Caribou County].
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Owen County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Freedom [Owen County].
- Kentucky
- Barren County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Freedom [Barren County].
- Russell County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Freedom [Russell County].
- Maine
- Waldo County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Freedom [Waldo County].
- Maryland
- Carroll County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Freedom [Carroll County].
- Michigan
- Cheboygan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Freedom [Cheboygan County].
- Minnesota
- Lac qui Parle County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Freedom [Lac qui Parle County].
- Waseca County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Freedom [Waseca County].
- Missouri
- Camden County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Freedom [Camden County].
- Lafayette County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Freedom [Lafayette County].
- Osage County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Freedom [Osage County].
- Montana
- Garfield County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Freedom [Garfield County].
- Nebraska
- Frontier County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Freedom [Frontier County].
- New Hampshire
- Carroll County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Hampshire community of Freedom [Carroll County].
- New York
- Cattaraugus County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Freedom [Cattaraugus County].
- North Carolina
- Ohio
- Hancock County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Freedom [Hancock County].
- Noble County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Freedom [Noble County].
- Portage County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Freedom [Portage County].
- Williams County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Freedom [Williams County].
- Oklahoma
- Woods County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Freedom [Woods County].
- Pennsylvania
- Beaver County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Freedom [Beaver County].
- Venango County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Freedom [Venango County].
- Texas
- Utah
- Sanpete County
- Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Freedom [Sanpete County].
- Washington
- Spokane County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Freedom [Spokane County].
- Wisconsin
- Outagamie County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Freedom [Outagamie County].
- Wyoming
- Lincoln County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wyoming community of Freedom [Lincoln County].
- Alberta
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Freedom ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Freedom:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Freedom - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Butler 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 Butler 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 Freedom 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/ |