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History · Canville Township

Canville Township’s post office opened in 1866

Most of Canville Township was built recently: 4% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1989. Below: maps from 1951 on.

1866first post office
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How Canville Township began

When was Canville Township founded?

1866

The Canville Township post office opened in 1866, the earliest record of the town by name. Two smaller post offices, Canville (1866) and Austin (1870), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 551160 years
Founding year: the first Canville Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Canville 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 Canville Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Canville Township.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Canville Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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Places that used to be

Lost post offices, places now gone and burying grounds

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

Canville
1866–1872
Austin
1870–1905
18601940today
Gone or out of use
AustinlocaleAustin SchoolschoolLittle Friend SchoolschoolLong Mound SchoolschoolRollow AirportairportSchool Number 44schoolSummit Hill SchoolschoolTurkey Creek Schoolschool
1cemetery inside Canville Township
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US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

The story so far

Canville Township, in brief

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

Canville Township is a township in Neosho County, Kansas, United States. A. B. Canville was a pioneer who settled in 1847 on Canville Creek.

Its first post office opened in 1866. Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 550 in 2010, 551 in 2020.

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

Timeline

Canville Township, 1866 to 1951

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1866Post officeThe Canville post office opens
  3. 1870Post officeThe Austin post office opens
  4. 1872Post officeThe Canville post office closes
  5. 20th century
  6. 1905Post officeThe Austin post office closes
  7. 1951On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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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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On the map

Canville Township on the map, 1951 to 1984

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

Canville Township on the 1951 USGS mapCanville Township on the 1973 USGS mapCanville Township on the 1984 USGS map1951Chanute sheet · 1:62,500

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

Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Chanute4 historic placesB+Chetopa TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townTioga TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townPleasant Valley TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townErie Township2 historic placesB

Questions about Canville Township’s history

What year was Canville Township founded?

The Canville Township post office opened in 1866, 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.