Do you know of Freeman ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Freeman. 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 Freeman.<1>
We found mention of Freeman as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Crawford County, Wisconsin.
It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.<2>
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1867 and closed in 1904.
Communities Also Named Freeman ...
We found 32 communities that share the name Freeman.
There is one other community in Wisconsin which is also named Freeman.
Beyond Wisconsin, we know of another 31 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 31 communities, 31 are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Located In Wisconsin ...
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arizona
- Arkansas
- Benton County
- This community is historic<4> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Freeman [Benton County].
- Carroll County
- This community is historic and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Freeman [Carroll County].
- Pope County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<5> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Freeman [Pope County].
- California
- Colorado
- Florida
- Georgia
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Pratt County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<5> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Freeman [Pratt County].
- Stafford 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 Kansas community of Freeman [Stafford County].
- Maine
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Missouri
- Nebraska
- New Jersey
- New York
- North Carolina
- Ohio
- Ontario
- This Freeman lies 565 miles [909.3 km]<3> to the east of the Freeman that is located in Crawford County.
- Pennsylvania
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Texas
- Virginia
- Washington
- West Virginia
- Mercer County
- This Freeman is located in Mercer County and lies 661 miles [1,063.8 km]<3> to the southeast of the Freeman that is located in Crawford County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Mercer County community of Freeman.
- Upshur County
- This Freeman is located in Upshur County and lies 637 miles [1,025.2 km] to the east southeast of the Freeman that is located in Crawford County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Upshur County community of Freeman.
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Freeman ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Freeman:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6>
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
More Orphans in Crawford 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 Crawford County.
| Clayton | Millet |
| Crawford | |
| North Star | |
| Elk | |
| Shaw Hill | |
| Hurlbut | Star Valley |
| Stockville | |
| Knapp's Creek | |
| Wheatville | |
| Lower Lynxville | Wright Ferry |
| Marietta | Yankeetown |
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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. |
| <2> | 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. |
| <3> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Freeman) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Freeman. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 43.3753, Longitude: -91.0829 In this case, the coordinates for Freeman have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <4> | We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Freeman, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <5> | 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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock Creek 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 Freeman 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. |
| <6> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |