Guest, Sign inJoin

Post to Castle Township

We’ll email a one-tap link to publish your post. No password, and nothing is public until you click it.
Already a member? Sign in
–Not graded
History · Castle Township

40% of Castle Township’s homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1965 on.

0on the National Register
40%homes built before 1940
Add an old photoShare a memory

What stands out about Castle 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 Castle Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Castle Township.Old housesHalf of Castle Township’s homes were built before 1958.
★ What stands out · Help out

Start Castle Township’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Castle Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
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.

Bachelor
1874–1876
Wheatland
1876–1896
18701950today
Gone or out of use
Neel AirportairportWheatlandlocale
1cemetery inside Castle Township
Windom

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

The story so far

Castle Township, in brief

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

Castle Township is a township in McPherson County, Kansas, United States. The area of Castle township is 36.169 square miles. As of 2020, the US Census Bureau's Decennial census determined a population of 162. In a total of 92 households, 59.8% of the people are married.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 202 to 162 (-20%).

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

Timeline

Castle Township, 1874 to 1965

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1874Post officeThe Bachelor post office opens
  3. 1876Post officeThe Bachelor post office closes
  4. 1876Post officeThe Wheatland post office opens
  5. 1896Post officeThe Wheatland post office closes
  6. 20th century
  7. 1965On 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.
Add from your album
On the map

Castle Township on the map, 1965 to 1985

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

Castle Township on the 1965 USGS mapCastle Township on the 1979 USGS mapCastle Township on the 1985 USGS map1965Windom NE 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 Castle Township.

Famous people

Famous people close to Castle Township

Nobody well known was born in Castle Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

See all →
S
Sandra MyersSpanish athletics competitor · b. 1961
B
Bruce ConnerAmerican artist · b. 1933
Montee BallAmerican football player · b. 1990
C. Dean AnderssonAmerican writer · b. 2000
G
Gordon YoungAmerican composer · b. 1919
Susan PetersonAmerican artist, ceramics educator, and author · b. 1925
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Union TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townSouth Sharps Creek TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townJackson TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townHayes TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Castle Township’s history

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

Town Square →
Start a conversation
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 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.