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History · Hickory Township

32% of Hickory Township’s homes were built before 1940

0on the National Register
32%homes built before 1940
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Places that used to be

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

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

Sheldons Grove
1853–1931
Bluff City
1870–1936
18501940today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Bluff CitySheldons Grove
Gone or out of use
Dixon SchoolschoolHickory SchoolschoolJ R Briney and Sons Airportairport
6cemeteries and burying grounds inside Hickory Township
BatesBluff CityJonesPriceSalisburySheldons Grove

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

Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Bath TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townLynchburg TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townWoodland TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townBrowning TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townKerton 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 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.