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History · Grandview Township

Grandview Township’s post office opened in 1833, and 24% of its homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the Philip D. Armour III House. Its Register listing is the Philip D. Armour III House. Below: maps from 1946 on.

1833first post office
1on the National Register
24%homes built before 1940
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How Grandview Township began

When was Grandview Township founded?

1833

The Grandview Township post office opened in 1833, the earliest record of the town by name. Four smaller post offices, Grand View (1833), Dudley (1855) and Conlogue (1863), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 523193 years
Founding year: the first Grandview Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Grandview 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 Grandview Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages4 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Grandview Township, and 3 old place names are still on the map.Deep rootsA post office since 1833: 193 years of Grandview Township.Old burying grounds12 cemeteries and burying grounds inside Grandview Township.
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Start Grandview Township’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Grandview 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.

Grand View
1833–1905
Dudley
1855–1953
Conlogue
1863–1906
Sisson
1898–1899
18301930today
Hamlets and corners on the map
ConlogueDudleyGrandview
Gone or out of use
Bell Ridge SchoolschoolBrinkerhoff SchoolschoolBuchanan SchoolschoolBussart AirportairportConlogue SchoolschoolFairview SchoolschoolGlatthaar AirportairportGough AirportairportNew Goshen Schoolschool
12cemeteries and burying grounds inside Grandview Township
AugustusBarr JohnsonBeattyBoyer FamilyCholeraGillGrandviewHindsHuffmanNew GoshenRudyTate

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

Timeline

Grandview Township, 1833 to 1953

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1833Post officeThe Grand View post office opens
  3. 1855Post officeThe Dudley post office opens
  4. 1863Post officeThe Conlogue post office opens
  5. 20th century
  6. 1905Post officeThe Grand View post office closes
  7. 1906Post officeThe Conlogue post office closes
  8. 1946On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  9. 1953Post officeThe Dudley post office closes
The story so far

Grandview Township, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Grandview Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Grandview Township is one of fifteen townships in Edgar County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2020 census, its population was 523 and it contained 238 housing units.

Its first post office opened in 1833. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 590 to 523 (-11%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

By decade

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

Grandview Township on the map, 1946 to 1982

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

Grandview Township on the 1946 USGS mapGrandview Township on the 1982 USGS map1946Kansas 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 Grandview Township.

On the National Register

1 historic place in Grandview Township

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

place listed
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National Historic Landmarks
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none yet
historic buildings protected
1
each building in a district counts
first listed
1996
Philip D. Armour III House
Philip D. Armour III House
Buildings

Architectural styles listings

Tudor Revival1
Philip D. Armour III HouseTudor Revival

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

Famous people

Famous people close to Grandview Township

Nobody well known was born in Grandview Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Fred Barthold NormanAmerican politician · b. 1882
Bill CoxAmerican baseball player · b. 1913
Chris MillerAmerican politician · b. 1954
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Dale BairdAmerican horse trainer · b. 1935
Louis H. GalbreathAmerican football player and coach · b. 1861
Abraham L. StanfieldAmerican businessman and politician · b. 1860
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Kansas TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townSymmes TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townBuck TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townDouglas TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townDolson TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Grandview Township’s history

What year was Grandview Township founded?

The Grandview Township post office opened in 1833, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Grandview Township?

One place: the Philip D. Armour III House (listed 1996).

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 National Register of Historic Places (1), 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.