Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Its Register listings are the Fred W. Kienhoff Barn and the Herman Chrystal Barn. Most of Marion Township was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1991. Its Register listings are the Fred W. Kienhoff Barn and the Herman Chrystal Barn. Below: maps from 1927 on and old-book passages.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Marion Township’s history is told.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Marion Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Marion Township is a township in Doniphan County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, its population was 215.
Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 211 in 2010, 215 in 2020.
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Marion Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
District No. 10. Has one school house, situated 3 miles west of Palermo, in Marion Township, has an attendance of about 15 scholars. District No. 11. Has one large frame school house, situated in Palermo and Geary City road, 4|- miles south of Palermo, Marion Township, contains 97 scholars.
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
District No. 34. Has one school house, situated 4 miles west of Palermo, Marion Township. District No. 35. Has one good school house, situated 4 miles south of Palermo, Marion Township, has an attendance of 35 scholars.
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Marion Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Marion Township.
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Nobody well known was born in Marion Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Another post office, Palermo, opened and closed inside today’s town.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Two places: the Fred W. Kienhoff Barn (listed 1987) and the Herman Chrystal Barn (1987).
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
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 the National Register of Historic Places (2), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
