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History · Kapioma Township

26% of Kapioma Township’s homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1960 on.

0on the National Register
26%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Kapioma 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 Kapioma Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Kapioma Township, and 1 old place names are still on the map.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Kapioma Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
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.

Arington
1862–1879
Arrington
1879–1973
18601940today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Arrington
Gone or out of use
Rose Valley Schoolschool
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Kapioma Township
Ernst FamilyMiller

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

The story

How Kapioma Township came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Kapioma Township.

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Kapioma Township was named for a chief of the Kickapoo Indians.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Kapioma Township, 1862 to 1973

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1862Post officeThe Arington post office opens
  3. 1879Post officeThe Arington post office closes
  4. 1879Post officeThe Arrington post office opens
  5. 20th century
  6. 1960On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  7. 1973Post officeThe Arrington post office closes
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

Kapioma Township on the map, 1960 to 1978

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

Kapioma Township on the 1960 USGS mapKapioma Township on the 1978 USGS map1960Arrington 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 Kapioma Township.

Famous people

Famous people close to Kapioma Township

Nobody well known was born in Kapioma Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Lynn JenkinsFormer U.S. Representative from Kansas · b. 1963
Bill JamesAmerican baseball writer and statistician · b. 1949
John Moore AllisonAmerican diplomat · b. 1905
Joe TinkerAmerican baseball player, manager · b. 1880
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Kendall McComasAmerican child actor · b. 1916
Al ReynoldsAmerican football player · b. 1938
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Grasshopper TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townBenton TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townDelaware Township1 historic placeA−

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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.