Clinton Township’s post office opened in 1858, and 1 of its places is on the National Register
Most of Clinton Township was built recently: 4% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1996. Its Register listing is the Clinton School District 25. Below: maps from 1955 on.
The Clinton Township post office opened in 1858, the earliest record of the town by name. Four smaller post offices, Bloomington (1855), Clinton (1858) and Belvoir (1869), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
2020 census: 626168 years
Founding year: the first Clinton Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓
What stands out about Clinton Township’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The community of Bloomington was settled in June 1854, but was not known as such until April 1855, when Harrison Burson applied to the U.S. Government for a post office. Within eight months of the area being settled, some 530 settlers were in the area that would become Bloomington-Clinton. The people of Bloomington were greatly anti-slavery and helped slaves escape through the Underground Railroad. In early 1857, the northern half of Bloomington was moved to a new location and the southern portion of the community was renamed Winchester.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Clinton Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1955Clinton 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 Clinton Township.
On the National Register
1 historic place in Clinton Township
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
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 National Register of Historic Places (1), 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.
