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Lincoln Township, Sedgwick County, KansasPhoto: United States Census Bureau, modified by User:FUBAR007 · Public domain
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History · Lincoln Township

27% of Lincoln Township’s homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1955 on.

0on the National Register
27%homes built before 1940
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Photo: United States Census Bureau, modified by User:FUBAR007 · Public domain

What stands out about Lincoln 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 Lincoln Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Lincoln Township, and 1 old place names are still on the map.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Lincoln 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.

Clarion
1871–1885
Furley
1887–1953
18701950today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Furley
Gone or out of use
ClarionlocaleDubois Oil FieldoilfieldEck AirfieldairportFlying R N AirportairportFurley Oil Fieldoilfield
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Lincoln Township
Green ValleyLorraine Avenue Mennonite

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

The story

How Lincoln Township came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Lincoln Township.

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Lincoln Township was established in 1871. The first settler in what was to become Lincoln Township was Henry Engot from Switzerland, who settled there in 1870.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Lincoln Township, 1871 to 1955

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1871Post officeThe Clarion post office opens
  3. 1885Post officeThe Clarion post office closes
  4. 1887Post officeThe Furley post office opens
  5. 20th century
  6. 1953Post officeThe Furley post office closes
  7. 1955On 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

Lincoln Township on the map, 1955 to 1970

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

Lincoln Township on the 1955 USGS mapLincoln Township on the 1960 USGS mapLincoln Township on the 1970 USGS map1955Greenwich 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 Lincoln Township.

Famous people

Famous people close to Lincoln Township

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

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Kevin SchmidtAmerican actor · b. 1988
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Bradley DentonAmerican science fiction author · b. 1958
Garner E. ShriverAmerican politician · b. 1912
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Harold ManningAmerican steeplechase and long-distance runner · b. 1909
Allen B. KanavelAmerican surgeon · b. 1874
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Ralph WinegarnerAmerican baseball player · b. 1909
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Richland TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townMurdock TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townGrant Township1 historic placeB−

Questions about Lincoln 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.