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History · Banner Township

43% of Banner Township’s homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1889 on.

0on the National Register
43%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Banner 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 Banner Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.On the map since 18894 editions of the USGS map, 1889 to 1985. Watch Banner Township change.Old housesHalf of Banner Township’s homes were built before 1943.
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Decades since 1900 with photos
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On the map

Banner Township on the map, 1889 to 1985

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

Banner Township on the 1889 USGS mapBanner Township on the 1891 USGS mapBanner Township on the 1966 USGS mapBanner Township on the 1985 USGS map1889Larned 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 Banner Township.

The story

How Banner Township came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Banner Township.

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Banner Township was established in 1877 after being separated from Pioneer Township. The first settler in what was to become Banner Township was A. Reiner in 1873.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Banner Township, 1882 to 1898

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1882Post officeThe Fenton post office opens
  3. 1889On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  4. 1898Post officeThe Fenton post office closes
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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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Places that used to be

Lost post offices, places now gone and burying grounds

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

Gone or out of use
Fentonlocale
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Banner Township
BohemianHoly Cross

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.

Center TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townAsh Valley TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townLone Star Township2 historic placesnot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townGarfield 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 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.