The story
Read it all →How Grant Township came to be
From Wikipedia’s history of Grant Township.
Grant Township was organized in 1872 and was named after President Ulysses S. Grant.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
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History · Grant Township
58% of Grant Township’s homes were built before 1940
Below: maps from 1892 on.
0on the National Register
58%homes built before 1940
What stands out about Grant Township’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Grant Township’s history is told.
Decades since 1900 with photos
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Grant Township, 1890 to 1894
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
By decade
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Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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Grant Township on the map, 1892 to 1985
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Grant Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1892Concordia sheet · 1:125,000U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Grant Township.
Famous people
See all →Famous people close to Grant Township
Nobody well known was born in Grant Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
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Rodger WardAmerican racecar driver · b. 1921
Places that used to be
Lost post offices, old corners and burying grounds
Another post office, Oneonta, opened and closed inside today’s town.
Hamlets and corners on the map
Oneonta
3cemeteries and burying grounds inside Grant Township
JamestownSaint Mary's CatholicSaron
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.
Beaver TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townAllen TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townSummit TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townBuffalo TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town
Questions about Grant Township’s history
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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). How TownRatings grades history →
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.