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History · Cimarron Township

67% of Cimarron Township’s homes were built before 1940

Below: 6 old photos and papers and maps from 1963 on.

0on the National Register
67%homes built before 1940
6old photos & papers
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From Cimarron Township’s archive · credits on each photo

What stands out about Cimarron Township’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

Old housesHalf of Cimarron Township’s homes were built before 1938.
★ What stands out · The story so far

Cimarron Township, in brief

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

Cimarron Township is a township in Meade County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, its population was 67.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 75 to 67 (-11%).

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

Timeline

Cimarron Township, 1888 to 1963

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1888Post officeThe Atwater post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1912Post officeThe Atwater post office closes
  5. 1915In the archiveGray County Fair
  6. 1939In the archiveKansas farmstead near Cimarron, Kansas
  7. 1963On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Cimarron Township, decade by decade

2 decades in the archive, from the 1910s to the 1930s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.

1910s–1930s6 items
Gray County Fair1915Gray County FairKansas farmstead near Cimarron, Kansas1939Kansas farmstead near Cimarron, KansasRailroad station at Cimarron, Kansas1939Railroad station at Cimarron, KansasBoys at 4-H club fair1939Boys at 4-H club fairGirls at 4-H Club fair1939Girls at 4-H Club fairWomen at 4-H Club fair1939Women at 4-H Club fair
1940s–1990snothing yet
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings 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

Cimarron Township on the map, 1963 to 1983

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

Cimarron Township on the 1963 USGS mapCimarron Township on the 1983 USGS map1963Kismet SE 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 Cimarron Township.

Then & now

Stand where they stood

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.

Gray County Fair
Retake this viewGray County Fair, 1915

Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Cimarron Township’s page.

Retake this view · +15
Places that used to be

Lost post offices, places now gone and burying grounds

Another post office, Atwater, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Gone or out of use
Atwaterlocale
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Cimarron Township
AtwaterWest Glendale

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

Help out

Finish Cimarron Township’s story

Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
2 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Retake an old viewGray County Fair: stand where they stood+15Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Fargo TownshipIts storyC−West Plains TownshipIts storyC+

Questions about Cimarron Township’s history

Memory lane

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

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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 the Library of Congress (6), 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.