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History · Fillmore Consolidated Township

28% of Fillmore Consolidated Township’s homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1947 on.

0on the National Register
28%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Fillmore Consolidated Township’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 Fillmore Consolidated Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages4 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Fillmore Consolidated Township, and 2 old place names are still on the map.Old housesHalf of Fillmore Consolidated Township’s homes were built before 1950.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Fillmore Consolidated Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

Four other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.

Hurricane
1829–1904
East Fork
1849–1881
Bost Hill
1876–1882
Chapman
1883–1928
18201920today
Hamlets and corners on the map
ChapmanVan Burensburg
Gone or out of use
Alexander SchoolschoolBost Hill SchoolschoolCollege Hill SchoolschoolEast Fork SchoolschoolEgypt SchoolschoolJerusalem SchoolschoolKnowles SchoolschoolShiloh Churchchurch
11cemeteries and burying grounds inside Fillmore Consolidated Township
Abner CaseyBost HillCressGlendaleGreen HillRenshawShilohWalkerWhittenWilliamsonWoodside

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

Timeline

Fillmore Consolidated Township, 1829 to 1947

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1829Post officeThe Hurricane post office opens
  3. 1849Post officeThe East Fork post office opens
  4. 1876Post officeThe Bost Hill post office opens
  5. 1881Post officeThe East Fork post office closes
  6. 1882Post officeThe Bost Hill post office closes
  7. 20th century
  8. 1904Post officeThe Hurricane post office closes
  9. 1947On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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No old photos in the archives yet

Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

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On the map

Fillmore Consolidated Township on the map, 1947 to 1998

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Fillmore Consolidated Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Fillmore Consolidated Township on the 1947 USGS mapFillmore Consolidated Township on the 1974 USGS mapFillmore Consolidated Township on the 1998 USGS map1947Hillsboro sheet · 1:62,500

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Fillmore Consolidated Township.

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

East Fork TownshipIts storyB−South Hurricane TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townShafter TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townWitt TownshipIts storyB−Mulberry Grove TownshipIts storyB+Hurricane TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

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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 U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, 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.