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History · Cedar Township

30% of Cedar Township’s homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1938 on.

0on the National Register
30%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.Lost villages3 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Cedar Township, and 1 old place names are still on the map.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Cedar Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
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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.

Buffington
1910–1910
Buffton
1910–1910
Buffville
1910–1943
19101970today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Buffville
Gone or out of use
Excelsior SchoolschoolHatler SchoolschoolKelley Schoolschool
1cemetery inside Cedar Township
Hatler

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

The story so far

Cedar Township, in brief

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

Cedar Township is a township in Wilson County, Kansas, United States.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 613 to 569 (-7%).

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

Timeline

Cedar Township, 1910 to 1943

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

  1. 20th century
  2. 1910Post officeThe Buffington post office opens
  3. 1910Post officeThe Buffington post office closes
  4. 1910Post officeThe Buffton post office opens
  5. 1910Post officeThe Buffton post office closes
  6. 1910Post officeThe Buffville post office opens
  7. 1938On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  8. 1943Post officeThe Buffville post office closes
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.

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On the map

Cedar Township on the map, 1938 to 1984

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 1938 USGS mapCedar Township on the 1943 USGS mapCedar Township on the 1959 USGS mapCedar Township on the 1984 USGS map1938Altoona 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 Cedar Township.

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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Gilbert BakerAmerican artist and gay rights activist · b. 1951
Oren E. LongAmerican politician · b. 1889
George W. MaloneAmerican politician · b. 1890
Barbara MorganAmerican artist and photographer · b. 1900
Jennifer KnappAmerican Christian musician · b. 1974
Milburn G. AptAmerican test pilot · b. 1924
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Center TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townChetopa TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townNeodesha TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townGuilford TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townPleasant Valley 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 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.