Fremont

History

In 1871, Fremont stretched for 8 blocks, 1/2 mile (under 1 km) along Main Street, with at least one house on every block on the north side of the street and a few houses on Washington Street, one block north. There was a Baptist church, a hotel, three stores, a barber shop and a school. The town also had a physician, a blacksmith and a shoemaker. The Burlington and Western, a narrow gauge railroad and its competitor, the Iowa Central Railway built parallel tracks toward Oskaloosa. The Burlington and Western arrived in the fall of 1883 and was widened to Standard Gauge in 1902 and taken over by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy the next year. the Minneapolis and St. Louis took over the Iowa Central around the same time. The Burlington line was abandoned in 1934. In 1905, Fremont had a grain elevator, live-stock pens, and a lumber yard on clustered around the Burlington depot on the south side of town, and a creamery, another stockyard, and grain elevator spread out on both sides of the Iowa Central depot along the north-east side. The school and hotel were on Main Street, and the post office was half a block north of Main.

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land.

Race & ethnicity

Most-observed species

• Canada Goose (canadensis Group)

  Branta canadensis (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  437
• Red-winged Blackbird

  Agelaius phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766) · Aves
  401
• Killdeer

  Charadrius vociferus Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  353
• American Robin

  Turdus migratorius Linnaeus, 1766 · Aves
  319
• Northern Cardinal

  Cardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  268
• Turkey Vulture

  Cathartes aura (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  266
• Great Blue/Cocoi Heron

  Ardea herodias Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  258
• Blue Jay

  Cyanocitta cristata (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  242

Largest nearby schools

• Fremont Elementary
  Elementary · Fremont · 126 students · 12.6:1 ratio

Most recent

• M 2.5 — 2025-06-25
  10 km WNW of Marysville, Iowa
• M 3 — 2025-06-25
  5 km S of Knoxville, Iowa
• M 3.3 — 2025-06-25
  8 km SE of Knoxville, Iowa