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History · Cottage Hill Township

26% of Cottage Hill Township’s homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1889 on.

0on the National Register
26%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Cottage Hill Township’s past

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A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Cottage Hill Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.On the map since 18894 editions of the USGS map, 1889 to 1983. Watch Cottage Hill Township change.Old housesHalf of Cottage Hill Township’s homes were built before 1962.
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On the map

Cottage Hill Township on the map, 1889 to 1983

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

Cottage Hill Township on the 1889 USGS mapCottage Hill Township on the 1894 USGS mapCottage Hill Township on the 1968 USGS mapCottage Hill Township on the 1983 USGS map1889Marysville 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 Cottage Hill Township.

The story so far

Cottage Hill Township, in brief

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

Cottage Hill Township is a township in Marshall County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, its population was 131.

Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 132 in 2010, 131 in 2020.

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

Timeline

Cottage Hill Township, 1875 to 1895

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1875Post officeThe Swede Creek post office opens
  3. 1889On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  4. 1895Post officeThe Swede Creek post office closes
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Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

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

Hamlets and corners on the map
Cottage Hill
Gone or out of use
Roepke Landing StripairportSwede Creeklocale
3cemeteries and burying grounds inside Cottage Hill Township
Cottage HillHarbaughPleasant Hill

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.

Blue Rapids TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townLincoln Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townWaterville Township3 historic placesnot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townSwede Creek 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.