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History · Wheatfield Township

22% of Wheatfield Township’s homes were built before 1940

0on the National Register
22%homes built before 1940
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Places that used to be

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

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

Hamlets and corners on the map
Stolletown
Gone or out of use
Carlyle North Oil FieldoilfieldHull SchoolschoolKell SchoolschoolLower Ford SchoolschoolSparks Post Officepost officeThe Mound ChurchchurchThe Mound Schoolschool
4cemeteries and burying grounds inside Wheatfield Township
RudolphSaint FelicitasSaint PeterYingst

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.

Irishtown TownshipIts storyC−St. Rose TownshipIts storyCMills TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townWade TownshipIts storyB−Tamalco 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.