Freda Township, Grant County, North Dakota

Freda Township is a township in Grant County, North Dakota, United States. Its population as of the 2000 Census was 12.^[1] It lies in the eastern part of the county along the Cannonball River.

History

Freda Township is named after Freda Van Sickle, the daughter of a railroad foreman working on the Milwaukee Railroad. The identically named town of Freda was once a major population center in the township, with a population of 50 in 1920.^[2]

The township was founded after the county was organized in 1916, and had a peak population of 178 during the 1930 U.S. Census.^[3]

A meteorite displayed at the Smithsonian Institution's American Museum of Natural History was discovered here in 1919.^[2]^[4]

References

^ U.S. Census Bureau. Census 2000. "Census Demographic Profiles, Freda Township" (PDF). CenStats Databases. Retrieved January 31, 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)^{[dead link]}
^ ^a ^b Wick, Douglas A. (1988). North Dakota Place Names. Bismarck, North Dakota: Hedemarken Collectibles. pp. 70–71. ISBN 0-9620968-0-6. OCLC 191277027.
^ U.S. Census Bureau (1931). "Number and Distribution of Inhabitants, North Dakota" (PDF). Fifteenth Census of the United States: 1930. Government Printing Office. Retrieved July 20, 2008.
^ "North Dakota Meteorites". JensenMeteorites.com. Retrieved June 22, 2010.