The story
Read it all →How Beaver Township came to be
From Wikipedia’s history of Beaver Township.
A post office was opened in Beaver in 1919, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1992.
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History · Beaver Township
The history of Beaver Township
Below: maps from 1893 on.
0on the National Register
0.0%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.
A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Beaver Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.On the map since 18933 editions of the USGS map, 1893 to 1985. Watch Beaver Township change.Lost villages3 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Beaver Township, and 1 old place names are still on the map.
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Decades since 1900 with photos
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.On the map
Beaver Township on the map, 1893 to 1985
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Beaver Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1893Smith Center sheet · 1:125,000U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Beaver Township.
Places that used to be
Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds
Three other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.
Eminence
Anderson
Thornburg
18701950today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Thornburg
Gone or out of use
Andersonlocale
1cemetery inside Beaver Township
Eminence
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Timeline
Beaver Township, 1879 to 1904
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
- 19th century
- 1879Post officeThe Eminence post office opens
- 1881Post officeThe Eminence post office closes
- 1881Post officeThe Anderson post office opens
- 1893
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey - 20th century
- 1902Post officeThe Anderson post office closes
- 1902Post officeThe Thornburg post office opens
- 1904Post officeThe Thornburg post office closes
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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.