The story
Read it all →How Pike Township came to be
From Wikipedia’s history of Pike Township.
The James Haines Farm was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.
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History · Pike Township
35% of Pike Township’s homes were built before 1940
Its Register listing is the James Haines Farm.
1on the National Register
35%homes built before 1940
What stands out about Pike Township’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
★ What stands out · 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.
Boundary
Bluff Point
Hawkins
Collett
18501940today
Hamlets and corners on the map
AntiochBluff PointBoundary CityCollett
Gone or out of use
Windy P Ridge Airportairport
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Pike Township
HawkinsKunce
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
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Start Pike Township’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Pike Township’s history is told.
Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.Timeline
Pike Township, 1852 to 1904
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
- 19th century
- 1852Post officeThe Boundary post office opens
- 1853Post officeThe Bluff Point post office opens
- 1870Post officeThe Hawkins post office opens
- 1881Post officeThe Hawkins post office closes
- 20th century
- 1904Post officeThe Boundary post office closes
- 1904Post officeThe Bluff Point post office closes
By decade
Pike Township, decade by decade
Today1 recent
2012On the National Register
1 historic place in Pike Township
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
9
each building in a district counts
first listed
2000
James Haines Farm
Buildings
Architectural styles listings
Late Victorian1
Italianate1
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Famous people
See all →Famous people close to Pike Township
Nobody well known was born in Pike Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
R
Richard SchoenAmerican mathematician · b. 1950Stories next door
History across the town line
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Questions about Pike Township’s history
What is on the National Register in Pike Township?
One place: the James Haines Farm (listed 2000).
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 Wikimedia Commons (1), the National Register of Historic Places (1), 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.