Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 76% of U.S. towns. What drives it
Most of Delaware Township was built recently: 9% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1983. Below: maps from 1910 on and old-book passages.
More historic than 76% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Delaware Township is more historic than 76% of U.S. towns. Its National Register listings hold the grade up; its share of homes from before 1940 pulls it down.
Kansas towns list more on the Register than most of the country (a typical Kansas town has 5.1 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Delaware Township’s 164 sits above most of its state (97% of Kansas towns have fewer) while its 13 historic buildings outnumber those of 77% of U.S. towns.
Founding year: our sources. Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Delaware Township’s history is told.
Two other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Delaware Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Delaware Township.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Delaware Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Delaware Township is a township in Leavenworth County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, its population was 1,061.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 1,019 to 1,061 (+4%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Delaware Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Mr. Timberlake moved to his present home in 1907. He has filled the office of trustee of Delaware Township and for the past ten years has been committeeman of Delaware Township. He is well known and highly respected citizen.
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
then worked for his father for two years. For five years he was with the Army National Bank of Leavenworth, and with the National Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Missouri, for two years. He was then engaged in farming for two years in Delaware Township, after which he moved to his present farm, which is situated one-half mile south of Lansing and consists of 160 acres. He also owns forty acres of land in Delaware Township.
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Nobody well known was born in Delaware Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Delaware Township is more historic than 76% of U.S. towns. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.
Two places: the Horace and Rosemond Lamborn Farmstead (listed 2011) and the Alice and Edwin Holman Farmstead (2023).
9% of Delaware Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±7.4 points), against a typical 10% for a Kansas town; the median home was built in 1983.
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
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).
From the National Register of Historic Places (2), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
