Official Name: | Freeland Park, Indiana |
Settlement Type: | Unincorporated town |
Mapsize: | 150px |
Pushpin Map: | USA Indiana Benton County |
Pushpin Label: | Freeland Park |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Freeland Park's location in Benton County |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | United States |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | Indiana |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Benton |
Subdivision Type3: | Township |
Subdivision Name3: | Parish Grove |
Timezone: | Eastern (EST) |
Utc Offset: | -5 |
Timezone Dst: | EDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | -4 |
Coordinates: | 40.6144°N -87.4911°W |
Elevation Footnotes: | [1] |
Elevation Ft: | 722 |
Postal Code Type: | ZIP code |
Postal Code: | 47944 |
Area Code: | 765 |
Blank Name: | FIPS code |
Blank Info: | 18-25792[2] |
Blank1 Name: | GNIS feature ID |
Blank1 Info: | 434812 |
Freeland Park is an unincorporated town in Parish Grove Township, Benton County, in the U.S. state of Indiana.[3] It is part of the Lafayette, Indiana Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Freeland Park was named for Antoine Freeland, the original owner of the town site.[4] It stood at the terminus of the Freeland Park branch of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad. A fire in 1914 badly damaged the town's business district. In the 1920s Freeland Park had two grain elevators, a high school, a Presbyterian church and eight to ten businesses.[5]
A post office was established at Freeland Park in 1901, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1957.[6]
Freeland Park is located at 40.6144°N -87.4911°W, half a mile south of the intersection of Indiana State Roads 18 and 71 and a little under two miles east of the Illinois state line. A small waterway known as Salmon Ditch runs just north of town and flows west into Illinois where it becomes Cole Creek.