The story
Read it all →How Fargo Township came to be
From Wikipedia’s history of Fargo Township.
Fargo was issued a post office in 1880. The post office was discontinued in 1890.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
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History · Fargo Township
Fargo Township’s post office opened in 1906, and 13% of its homes were built before 1940
More historic than 19% of U.S. towns. What drives it
Below: maps from 1968 on.
1906first post office
0on the National Register
13%homes built before 1940
Quick answers
How Fargo Township began
When was Fargo Township founded?
1906
The Fargo Township post office opened in 1906, the earliest record of the town by name. Six smaller post offices, Adobe (1880), Fargo Springs (1885) and Harwoodville (1885), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
2020 census: 1,205120 years
How historic is Fargo Township?
C−
What drives the grade ↓More historic than 19% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
Founding year: the first Fargo Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓
History grade
What drives Fargo Township’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Fargo Township is more historic than 19% of U.S. towns. Its share of homes from before 1940 holds the grade up; its age pulls it down.
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HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Fargo Township’s overall grade.
Founding era1906, from the first post office: founded 1900–1944, an older era than 9% of U.S. townsDHomes built before 194013.3% of homes (±9.2) · typical KS town 10.3% · U.S. 8.4%BNational RegisterNo listings counted · typical KS town 5.1 per 10,000 · U.S. 2.4C−
All U.S. towns we grade (21,289)Ahead of 19%
NewerOlder
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 Fargo Township’s 0.0 sits below most of its state (19% of Kansas towns have fewer) while its 0 listings outnumber those of 23% of U.S. towns.
How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from D− to C. The pre-1940 share is a Census survey estimate (±9.2 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 Fargo Township’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
★ What stands out · Places that used to be
Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds
Six other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.
Adobe
Fargo Springs
Harwoodville
Arkalon
Fargo
Hayne
18801950today
Hamlets and corners on the map
ArkalonHayne
Gone or out of use
AdobelocaleFargo Springslocale
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Fargo Township
ArkalonBixler
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
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Start Fargo Township’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Fargo Township’s history is told.
Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.Timeline
Fargo Township, 1880 to 1968
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
- 19th century
- 1880Post officeThe Adobe post office opens
- 1883Post officeThe Adobe post office closes
- 1885Post officeThe Fargo Springs post office opens
- 1885Post officeThe Harwoodville post office opens
- 1885Post officeThe Harwoodville post office closes
- 1888Post officeThe Fargo Springs post office closes
- 20th century
- 1968
On 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.
Be the first to add onePhotograph a print flat, in daylight, no flash.
Add from your albumOn the map
Fargo Township on the map in 1968
The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Fargo Township.
1968Liberal NE sheet · 1:24,000U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Fargo Township.
Famous people
See all →Famous people close to Fargo Township
Nobody well known was born in Fargo Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Stories next door
History across the town line
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Questions about Fargo Township’s history
What year was Fargo Township founded?
The Fargo Township post office opened in 1906, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
How does Fargo Township rank for history?
Fargo Township is more historic than 19% 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.
How old are the homes in Fargo Township?
13% of Fargo Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±9.2 points), against a typical 10% for a Kansas town; the median home was built in 1976.
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 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.