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History · Allison Township

Allison Township’s post office opened in 1880, and 13% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1978 on.

1880first post office
0on the National Register
13%homes built before 1940
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How Allison Township began

When was Allison Township founded?

1880

The Allison Township post office opened in 1880, the earliest record of the town by name. Two smaller post offices, Toiyabe (1879) and Allison (1880), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 49146 years
Founding year: the first Allison Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Allison Township’s past

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

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Allison Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Allison Township, and 1 old place names are still on the map.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Allison Township’s history is told.

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Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners and burying grounds

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

Toiyabe
1879–1880
Allison
1880–1919
18701950today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Allison
1cemetery inside Allison Township
Allison

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

The story

How Allison Township came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Allison Township.

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A post office was opened in Allison in 1880, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1919.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Allison Township, 1879 to 1978

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1879Post officeThe Toiyabe post office opens
  3. 1880Post officeThe Toiyabe post office closes
  4. 1880Post officeThe Allison post office opens
  5. 20th century
  6. 1919Post officeThe Allison post office closes
  7. 1978On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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

Allison Township on the map, 1978 to 1985

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

Allison Township on the 1978 USGS mapAllison Township on the 1985 USGS map1978Clayton SW sheet · 1:24,000

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

Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Highland-District 2 Township2 historic placesnot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townLyon TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townPleasant Valley TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Allison Township’s history

What year was Allison Township founded?

The Allison Township post office opened in 1880, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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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 Wikipedia, 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.