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History · Forkland

Forkland’s post office opened in 1840, and 2 of its places are on the National Register

Most of Forkland was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1983. Its Register listings are the Rosemount and the St. John's-In-The-Prairie.

1840first post office
2on the National Register
0.0%homes built before 1940
2famous people
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How Forkland began

When was Forkland founded?

1840

The Forkland post office opened in 1840, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 445186 years
Founding year: the first Forkland post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Forkland’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Forkland are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Deep rootsA post office since 1840: 186 years of Forkland.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Forkland’s history is told.

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Timeline

Forkland, 1840 to 1938

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1840Post officeThe Forkland post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1916Born hereBobo Jenkins is born here
  5. 1938Born hereMaxie Baughan is born here
The story

How Forkland came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Forkland.

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Forkland has one site on the National Register of Historic Places, St. John's-In-The-Prairie, built in 1859, and two sites nearby, Rosemount and Thornhill.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

By decade

Forkland, decade by decade

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On the National Register

2 historic places in Forkland

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

places listed
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National Historic Landmarks
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none yet
historic buildings protected
2
each building in a district counts
first listed
1971
Rosemount
RosemountSt. John's-In-The-Prairie
Buildings

Architectural styles listings

Greek Revival1
Gothic1
RosemountGreek Revival
St. John's-In-The-PrairieGothic

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

Famous people

2 famous people were born in Forkland

Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.

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Maxie BaughanAmerican football player and coach · b. 1938
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Bobo JenkinsAmerican Detroit blues and electric blues guita… · b. 1916
Places that used to be

Old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

Forkland’s post office has been open since 1840.

Hamlets and corners on the map
Jackson Quarters
Gone or out of use
Ebenezer SchoolschoolLittle Schoolschool
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Forkland
EbenezerSaint John

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Questions about Forkland’s history

What year was Forkland founded?

The Forkland post office opened in 1840, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Forkland?

Two places: the Rosemount (listed 1971) and the St. John's-In-The-Prairie (1975).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From the Library of Congress (6), the National Register of Historic Places (2), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.