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History · Clifford Township

23% of Clifford Township’s homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1962 on.

0on the National Register
23%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Clifford 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 Clifford Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The story

How Clifford Township came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Clifford Township.

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Clifford Township was organized in 1876. The township was named for John A. Clifford, a pioneer settler.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Clifford Township, 1875 to 1962

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1875Post officeThe Amador post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1902Post officeThe Amador post office closes
  5. 1962On 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.

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On the map

Clifford Township on the map, 1962 to 1985

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

Clifford Township on the 1962 USGS mapClifford Township on the 1985 USGS map1962Burns 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 Clifford Township.

Famous people

Famous people close to Clifford Township

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

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Roger MarshallAmerican politician · b. 1960
Mort WalkerAmerican comic strip cartoonist · b. 1923
Steve BrodieAmerican actor · b. 1919
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Bradley DentonAmerican science fiction author · b. 1958
Jack MarshallAmerican musician, conductor, composer · b. 1921
Maude FultonAmerican actress · b. 1881
Places that used to be

Lost post offices, places now gone and burying grounds

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

Gone or out of use
AmadorlocaleElbing Oil Fieldoilfield
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Clifford Township
Ebenezer MethodistPleasant Center

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

Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Fairmount Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townLincoln Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townPlum Grove 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 Wikipedia, 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.