The story
Read it all →How Kent Township came to be
From Wikipedia’s history of Kent Township.
Kent Township was created in September 1864 from a section of Mound Township.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
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History · Kent Township
22% of Kent Township’s homes were built before 1940
Below: maps from 1958 on and the census since 1890.
0on the National Register
22%homes built before 1940
What stands out about Kent Township’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Kent Township’s history is told.
Decades since 1900 with photos
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Kent Township, 1825 to 1958
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
- 19th century
- 1825Post officeThe Gopher Hill post office opens
- 1830Post officeThe Gopher Hill post office closes
- 20th century
- 1958
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade
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Kent Township on the map, 1958 to 1991
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Kent Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1958Covington sheet · 1:24,000U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Kent Township.
People over time
Kent Township, census by census
Between 372 and 629 people in every census since 1890.
14 censuses, 1890–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Kent Township’s Wikipedia page.
Famous people
See all →Famous people close to Kent Township
Nobody well known was born in Kent Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Places that used to be
Lost post offices and burying grounds
Another post office, Gopher Hill, opened and closed inside today’s town.
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Kent Township
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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.
Questions about Kent Township’s history
Memory lane
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
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Sources
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 Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), 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.