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History · Cedar Township

33% of Cedar Township’s homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1893 on and the census since 1920.

0on the National Register
33%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Cedar 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 Cedar 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 Cedar Township change.Lost villages3 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Cedar Township.
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On the map

Cedar Township on the map, 1893 to 1985

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

Cedar Township on the 1893 USGS mapCedar Township on the 1973 USGS mapCedar Township on the 1985 USGS map1893Phillipsburg sheet · 1:125,000

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

Places that used to be

Lost post offices and places now gone

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

Germantown
1871–1893
Covington
1872–1890
Clifford
1876–1888
18701950today
Gone or out of use
CliffordlocaleCovingtonlocaleGermantownlocaleReneberg Landing Stripairport

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

The story

How Cedar Township came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Cedar Township.

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Cedar was a station and shipping point on the Missouri Pacific Railroad.

The first post office in Cedar was established in 1871, but it was called Cedarville until 1906.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Cedar Township, 1871 to 1893

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1871Post officeThe Germantown post office opens
  3. 1872Post officeThe Covington post office opens
  4. 1876Post officeThe Clifford post office opens
  5. 1888Post officeThe Clifford post office closes
  6. 1890Post officeThe Covington post office closes
  7. 1893Post officeThe Germantown post office closes
  8. 1893On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Cedar Township, decade by decade

Today1 recent
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People over time

Cedar Township, census by census

0100192019401960198020002020Peak: 148

Between 11 and 148 people in every census since 1920.

11 censuses, 1920–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Cedar Township’s Wikipedia page.

Famous people

Famous people close to Cedar Township

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

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Roscoe ArbuckleAmerican actor, director and comedian · b. 1887
Kevin SaundersAmerican paralympian · b. 1955
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Nolan CromwellAmerican football player · b. 1955
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Janis LeeAmerican politician · b. 1945
Mark SimoneauAll-American college football player, professio… · b. 1977
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Braden WilsonAmerican football player · b. 1989
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Lane Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townPlum Township2 historic placesnot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townValley TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townSwan TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

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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 Wikimedia Commons (1), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), 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.