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History · Gypsum Township

81% of Gypsum Township’s homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the Hobbs Creek Truss Leg Bedstead Bridge. Below: maps from 1955 on and the census since 1890.

1on the National Register
81%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Gypsum 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 Gypsum Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Gypsum Township’s homes were built before 1938.Boom and bustPeaked at 732 in 1920; 400 people lived here in 2020.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Gypsum Township’s history is told.

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The story

How Gypsum Township came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Gypsum Township.

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The community was founded as a Templer community called Tempelfeld. Gypsum was named after Gypsum Creek. The Gypsum post office has operated under that name since 1886.

ChaptersEarly history19th century

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

People over time

Gypsum Township, census by census

02004006008001900192019401960198020002020Peak: 732

Peaked at 732 in 1920; 400 people lived here in 2020.

14 censuses, 1890–2020.

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

Timeline

Gypsum Township, 1886 to 1955

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1886Post officeThe Digby post office opens
  3. 1887Post officeThe Digby post office closes
  4. 20th century
  5. 1907BuiltHobbs Creek Truss Leg Bedstead Bridge is built
  6. 1920CensusPopulation peaks at 732
  7. 1955On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Gypsum Township, decade by decade

Today2 recent
Detailed map of Gypsum, Kansas2010Detailed map of Gypsum, KansasMapKSMap-doton-Gypsum2005KSMap-doton-Gypsum
On the map

Gypsum Township on the map, 1955 to 1985

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

Gypsum Township on the 1955 USGS mapGypsum Township on the 1978 USGS mapGypsum Township on the 1985 USGS map1955Gypsum 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 Gypsum Township.

On the National Register

1 historic place in Gypsum Township

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

place listed
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National Historic Landmarks
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historic buildings protected
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each building in a district counts
first listed
2004
Hobbs Creek Truss Leg Bedstead Bridge
Hobbs Creek Truss Leg Bedstead Bridge, built 1907
Structures
Hobbs Creek Truss Leg Bedstead BridgeBuilt 1907

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

Places that used to be

Lost post offices, places now gone and burying grounds

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

Gone or out of use
DigbylocaleGypsum Creek Oil Fieldoilfield
3cemeteries and burying grounds inside Gypsum Township
Chapel HillGypsumSaint Patrick

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.

Eureka TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townLiberty TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townGypsum Creek Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townHolland Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Gypsum Township’s history

What is on the National Register in Gypsum Township?

One place: the Hobbs Creek Truss Leg Bedstead Bridge (listed 2004).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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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 Wikimedia Commons (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.