Freeport Township is located in
Stephenson County
Stephenson County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2020 United States census, it had a population of 44,630. Its county seat is Freeport. Stephenson County is included in the Freeport, IL Micropolitan Statis ...
,
Illinois
Illinois ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern United States. It borders on Lake Michigan to its northeast, the Mississippi River to its west, and the Wabash River, Wabash and Ohio River, Ohio rivers to its ...
. As of the 2010 census, its population was 25,638 and it contained 12,396 housing units.
Freeport Township is
coterminous with City of
Freeport Freeport, a variant of free port, may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
* Freeport, name of several space stations in the video game ''Freelancer'' (2003)
* Freeport, a fictional town in the video game ''SiN'' (1998)
* ''Freeport: The Cit ...
. It is one of seventeen coterminous townships in Illinois.
Geography
According to the 2010 census, the township has a total area of , of which (or 99.92%) is land and (or 0.08%) is water.
Stagecoach inns
The Mansion House hotel on Walnut Street and Spring Streets in Freeport was built by Benjamin Goddard in 1838. It was an official stage stop on the Old State Road number 2, now Business U.S. Route 20, for the Frink, Walker & Company stage line Chicago to Galena 1839–1854. The building is no longer standing.
[''History of Stephenson County 1970''. Freeport, Illinois: County of Stephenson, 1972. p. 371.]
Demographics
References
External links
City-data.comStephenson County Official Site
Townships in Stephenson County, Illinois
Rockford metropolitan area, Illinois
Townships in Illinois
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