The story
Read it all →How Beaver Township came to be
From Wikipedia’s history of Beaver Township.
Beaver Township was established in 1886, as was all townships in Scott County.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
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History · Beaver Township
23% of Beaver Township’s homes were built before 1940
Its Register listing is the Herbert and Eliza Steele House. Below: maps from 1939 on.
1on the National Register
23%homes built before 1940
What stands out about Beaver Township’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
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Start Beaver Township’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Beaver Township’s history is told.
Decades since 1900 with photos
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.Timeline
Beaver Township, 1887 to 1939
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
- 19th century
- 1887Post officeThe Pence post office opens
- 20th century
- 1920Post officeThe Pence post office closes
- 1939
On 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.
Be the first to add onePhotograph a print flat, in daylight, no flash.
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Beaver Township on the map, 1939 to 1976
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Beaver Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1939Pence sheet · 1:62,500U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Beaver Township.
On the National Register
1 historic place in Beaver Township
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
2
each building in a district counts
first listed
2016
Herbert and Eliza Steele House
Buildings
All 1 listings
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 Beaver Township
Nobody well known was born in Beaver Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Places that used to be
Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds
Another post office, Pence, opened and closed inside today’s town.
Hamlets and corners on the map
Pence
Gone or out of use
Pence SchoolschoolPleasant View SchoolschoolPrairie View SchoolschoolPrairie View SchoolschoolState Park Schoolschool
3cemeteries and burying grounds inside Beaver Township
PenceScott MennoniteWhite Womans Grave
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 Beaver Township’s history
What is on the National Register in Beaver Township?
One place: the Herbert and Eliza Steele House (listed 2016).
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 the National Register of Historic Places (1), 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.