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.
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]
U.S. Census map of Freda Township as of the 2000 Census
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