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History · Miami Township

29% of Miami Township’s homes were built before 1940

Its Register listings are the New Lancaster General Store and the New Lancaster Grange Hall, No. 223.

2on the National Register
29%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Miami 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 Miami Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Miami Township, and 1 old place names are still on the map.Old housesHalf of Miami Township’s homes were built before 1956.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Miami 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.

New Lancaster
1859–1906
Pendleton
1883–1905
18501940today
Hamlets and corners on the map
New Lancaster
Gone or out of use
Hawkeye SchoolschoolHurt AirportairportPendletonlocale
1cemetery inside Miami Township
New Lancaster

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

The story so far

Miami Township, in brief

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

Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 537 in 2010, 545 in 2020.

Timeline

Miami Township, 1859 to 1906

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1859Post officeThe New Lancaster post office opens
  3. 1883Post officeThe Pendleton post office opens
  4. 20th century
  5. 1905Post officeThe Pendleton post office closes
  6. 1906Post officeThe New Lancaster 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 National Register

2 historic places in Miami Township

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

places listed
2
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
4
each building in a district counts
first listed
2013
New Lancaster General Store
New Lancaster General StoreNew Lancaster Grange Hall, No. 223
Buildings
New Lancaster General StoreBuilding
All 2 listings
New Lancaster Grange Hall, No. 223Building · listed 2013

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

Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Osage TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townSugar Creek TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townValley TownshipIts storyCLincoln TownshipIts storyC−Linn ValleyIts storyD−Middle Creek Township1 historic placeB−

Questions about Miami Township’s history

What is on the National Register in Miami Township?

Two places: the New Lancaster General Store (listed 2013) and the New Lancaster Grange Hall, No. 223 (2013).

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 the National Register of Historic Places (2), 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.