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History · Pilot Grove Township

Pilot Grove Township’s post office opened in 1850, and 60% of its homes were built before 1940

1850first post office
0on the National Register
60%homes built before 1940
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Quick answers

How Pilot Grove Township began

When was Pilot Grove Township founded?

1850

The Pilot Grove Township post office opened in 1850, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Pilot Grove (1850), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 282176 years
Founding year: the first Pilot Grove Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).
Places that used to be

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

Another post office, Pilot Grove, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Pilot Grove
1850–1865
Burnside
1868–today
18501940today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Burnside
Gone or out of use
Cottage SchoolschoolForest Hill SchoolschoolJubilee SchoolschoolLiberty SchoolschoolLung RLA AirportairportMadison SchoolschoolPilot Grove SchoolschoolShake Rag Schoolschool
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Pilot Grove Township
McKayPilot 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.

Fountain Green TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townDurham TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townCarthage Township2 historic placesARock Creek TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townPrairie TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Pilot Grove Township’s history

What year was Pilot Grove Township founded?

The Pilot Grove Township post office opened in 1850, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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 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.