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History · Castleton Township

Castleton Township’s post office opened in 1872, and 16% of its homes were built before 1940

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How Castleton Township began

When was Castleton Township founded?

1872

The Castleton Township post office opened in 1872, the earliest record of the town by name. Two smaller post offices, Castleton (1872) and Marietta (1878), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 323154 years
Founding year: the first Castleton Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Castleton 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 Castleton Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Castleton Township, and 1 old place names are still on the map.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Castleton Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

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

Castleton
1872–1957
Marietta
1878–1887
18701950today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Castleton
Gone or out of use
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1cemetery inside Castleton Township
Saint Agnes

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

The story

How Castleton Township came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Castleton Township.

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Castleton was a station and shipping point on the Hutchinson & Blackwell division of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. It was originally platted by Clinton C. Hutchinson around 1871.

The post office was established December 6, 1872, remained in operation until it was discontinued on June 28, 1957. In 1971, the post office building was moved to the Barton County Historical Society Museum and Village in Great Bend, Kansas.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Castleton Township, 1872 to 1957

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1872Post officeThe Castleton post office opens
  3. 1878Post officeThe Marietta post office opens
  4. 1887Post officeThe Marietta post office closes
  5. 20th century
  6. 1936Born hereLarry Foss is born here
  7. 1957Post officeThe Castleton post office closes
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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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Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Ninnescah TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townTroy TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townHaven TownshipIts storyC+Albion TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townLincoln TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Castleton Township’s history

What year was Castleton Township founded?

The Castleton Township post office opened in 1872, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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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, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, 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.