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History · Alexandria Township

Alexandria Township’s post office opened in 1856, and 13% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1886 on.

1856first post office
0on the National Register
13%homes built before 1940
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How Alexandria Township began

When was Alexandria Township founded?

1856

The Alexandria Township post office opened in 1856, the earliest record of the town by name. Five smaller post offices, Alexandria (1856), Springdale (1860) and Salt Creek (1863), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 871170 years
Founding year: the first Alexandria Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Alexandria Township’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

Lost villages5 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Alexandria Township, and 2 old place names are still on the map.A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Alexandria Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
★ What stands out · Places that used to be

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

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

Alexandria
1856–1857
Springdale
1860–1907
Salt Creek
1863–1864
Jarbalo
1872–1958
Ackerland
1883–1923
18501940today
Hamlets and corners on the map
JarbaloSpringdale
Gone or out of use
AckerlandlocaleAlexandrialocaleCentennial SchoolschoolSpringdale SchoolschoolStony Point Schoolschool
5cemeteries and burying grounds inside Alexandria Township
BethelFall CreekFriends ChurchSaint ThomasSpringdale

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

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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Alexandria Township’s history is told.

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The story so far

Alexandria Township, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Alexandria Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Alexandria Township is a township in Leavenworth County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, its population was 871.

Its first post office opened in 1856. Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 882 in 2010, 871 in 2020.

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline

Alexandria Township, 1856 to 1907

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1856Post officeThe Alexandria post office opens
  3. 1857Post officeThe Alexandria post office closes
  4. 1860Post officeThe Springdale post office opens
  5. 1863Post officeThe Salt Creek post office opens
  6. 1864Post officeThe Salt Creek post office closes
  7. 1886On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  8. 20th century
  9. 1907Post officeThe Springdale post office closes
By decade

No old photos in the archives yet

Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

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On the map

Alexandria Township on the map, 1886 to 1894

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Alexandria Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Alexandria Township on the 1886 USGS mapAlexandria Township on the 1894 USGS map1886Oskaloosa sheet · 1:125,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Alexandria Township.

Famous people

Famous people close to Alexandria Township

Nobody well known was born in Alexandria Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Melissa EtheridgeAmerican singer-songwriter · b. 1961
Dean PotterAmerican rock climber · b. 1972
Doug LambornU.S. Representative from Colorado · b. 1954
Elizabeth Gould DavisAmerican writer · b. 1910
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Hilda ClarkAmerican model and actress · b. 1872
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R. H. BarlowAmerican anthropologist · b. 1918
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

High Prairie Township1 historic placeC+Union TownshipIts storyC+Easton Township1 historic placeBTonganoxie TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Alexandria Township’s history

What year was Alexandria Township founded?

The Alexandria Township post office opened in 1856, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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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 U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, 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.