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History · Eudora Township

Eudora Township’s post office opened in 1857, and 5 of its places are on the National Register

More historic than 44% of U.S. towns · #79 of 151 in Kansas. What drives it

Most of Eudora Township was built recently: 8% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1995. Below: maps from 1951 on and the census since 1880.

1857first post office
5on the National Register
8%homes built before 1940
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Quick answers

How Eudora Township began

When was Eudora Township founded?

1857

The Eudora Township post office opened in 1857, the earliest record of the town by name. Two smaller post offices, Hesper (1868) and Weaver (1891), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

First census: 572 in 18802020 census: 7,734169 years

How historic is Eudora Township?

C+

More historic than 44% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.

What drives the grade ↓
Founding year: the first Eudora Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓
History grade

What drives Eudora Township’s History grade

On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Eudora Township is more historic than 44% of U.S. towns, #79 of 151 in Kansas. Its National Register listings hold the grade up; its age pulls it down.

C+
HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Eudora Township’s overall grade.
Founding era1857, from the first post office: founded 1850–1899, an older era than 37% of U.S. townsC+Homes built before 19407.8% of homes (±4.7) · typical KS town 10.3% · U.S. 8.4%C+National Register5 listings, 6.4 per 10,000 residents · typical KS town 5.1 · U.S. 2.4B
All U.S. towns we grade (21,289)Ahead of 44%
NewerOlder
Kansas towns of 2,500+ (151)Ahead of 48%

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 Eudora Township’s 6.4 sits near the middle of its state (52% of Kansas towns have fewer) while its 5 listings outnumber those of 70% of U.S. towns.

How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from C to B−. The pre-1940 share is a Census survey estimate (±4.7 points). The founding year is the first post office, not a stated founding date.

Founding year: the first post office (other dates in Quick answers). 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 →

What stands out about Eudora 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 Eudora Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Eudora Township, and 2 old place names are still on the map.Landmarks on the Register5 places on the National Register.
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Start Eudora Township’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Eudora Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
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Places that used to be

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

Two other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.

Hesper
1868–1900
Weaver
1891–1903
18601940today
Hamlets and corners on the map
HesperWeaver
Gone or out of use
Gage Farm Airportairport
4cemeteries and burying grounds inside Eudora Township
Cemetery Beni IsraelDeayHesper FriendsHoly Family

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

On the National Register

5 historic places in Eudora Township

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

places listed
5
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
5
each building in a district counts
first listed
2013
Beni Israel Cemetery
Beni Israel Cemetery, built 1869
Sites
Beni Israel CemeteryBuilt 1869

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

The story

How Eudora Township came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Eudora Township.

Read it all →

The Eudora area was home to various Native American tribes for thousands of years. The Kansa tribe lived in the Eudora area from the 1600s to the early 1800s. The Kansa lived along the rivers of this region in villages and practiced agriculture. A Kansa village was located at the site of modern-day Eudora in the 1790s. In the 1820s the Kansa were forcibly removed from the region by the U.S. government to make room for the Shawnee tribe. The Oregon Trail and Santa Fe Trail passed through the region, just a few miles south of modern Eudora.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Eudora Township, 1868 to 1951

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1868Post officeThe Hesper post office opens
  3. 1869BuiltBeni Israel Cemetery is built
  4. 1891Post officeThe Weaver post office opens
  5. 20th century
  6. 1900Post officeThe Hesper post office closes
  7. 1903Post officeThe Weaver post office closes
  8. 1951On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Eudora Township, decade by decade

Today18 recent
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On the map

Eudora Township on the map, 1951 to 1970

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

Eudora Township on the 1951 USGS mapEudora Township on the 1970 USGS map1951Eudora 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 Eudora Township.

People over time

Eudora Township, census by census

05001,0001,5002,0002,5003,0003,5004,0004,5005,0005,5006,0006,5007,000188019001920194019601980200020206,408

Grew from 572 people in 1880 to 6,408 in 2020, more than tenfold.

15 censuses, 1880–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Eudora Township’s Wikipedia page.

Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Reno Township1 historic placeB−Lexington Township1 historic placeB−Wakarusa Township1 historic placeC+Palmyra Township21 historic placesA−Sherman Township1 historic placeC+Lawrence66 historic placesB+

Questions about Eudora Township’s history

What year was Eudora Township founded?

The Eudora Township post office opened in 1857, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

How does Eudora Township rank for history?

Eudora Township is more historic than 44% of U.S. towns, #79 of 151 in Kansas. 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.

What is on the National Register in Eudora Township?

5 listings: 1 site.

How old are the homes in Eudora Township?

8% of Eudora Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±4.7 points), against a typical 10% for a Kansas town; the median home was built in 1995.

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).

From Wikimedia Commons (18), Wikidata (2), the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), 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.