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History · Hackberry Township

Hackberry Township’s post office opened in 1875

Most of Hackberry Township was built recently: 2% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1969. Below: maps from 1944 on.

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How Hackberry Township began

When was Hackberry Township founded?

1875

The Hackberry Township post office opened in 1875, the earliest record of the town by name. Three smaller post offices, Lake Creek (1870), Hackberry (1875) and Cecil (1881), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 402151 years
Founding year: the first Hackberry Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Hackberry 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 Hackberry Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages3 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Hackberry Township.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Hackberry Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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Places that used to be

Lost post offices, places now gone and burying grounds

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

Lake Creek
1870–1872
Hackberry
1875–1876
Cecil
1881–1904
18701950today
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Baylor SchoolschoolCecillocaleCecil ChurchchurchFoland SchoolschoolHackberry SchoolschoolHyatt SchoolschoolLake Creek SchoolschoolLiggett SchoolschoolLockard Schoolschool
4cemeteries and burying grounds inside Hackberry Township
CecilHackberryLake CreekPhillips

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

The story so far

Hackberry Township, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Hackberry Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Hackberry Township is a township in Labette County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, its population was 402.

Its first post office opened in 1875. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 392 to 402 (+3%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline

Hackberry Township, 1870 to 1944

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1870Post officeThe Lake Creek post office opens
  3. 1872Post officeThe Lake Creek post office closes
  4. 1875Post officeThe Hackberry post office opens
  5. 1876Post officeThe Hackberry post office closes
  6. 1881Post officeThe Cecil post office opens
  7. 20th century
  8. 1904Post officeThe Cecil post office closes
  9. 1944On 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.

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On the map

Hackberry Township on the map, 1944 to 1974

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

Hackberry Township on the 1944 USGS mapHackberry Township on the 1974 USGS map1944Oswego sheet · 1:62,500

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Hackberry Township.

Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Fairview TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townElm Grove Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Hackberry Township’s history

What year was Hackberry Township founded?

The Hackberry Township post office opened in 1875, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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 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.