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History · Mill Creek Township

Mill Creek Township’s post office opened in 1860, and 45% of its homes were built before 1940

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How Mill Creek Township began

When was Mill Creek Township founded?

1860

The Mill Creek Township post office opened in 1860, the earliest record of the town by name. Three smaller post offices, Mill Creek (1860), Berlin (1879) and Devon (1889), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 488166 years
Founding year: the first Mill Creek Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Mill Creek 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 Mill Creek Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages3 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Mill Creek Township, and 2 old place names are still on the map.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Mill Creek Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

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

Mill Creek
1860–1889
Berlin
1879–1903
Devon
1889–1989
18601940today
Hamlets and corners on the map
BerlinDevon
Gone or out of use
Berlin SchoolschoolCenterville SchoolschoolPleasant Valley SchoolschoolPleasant Valley SchoolschoolPoplar Grove Schoolschool
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Mill Creek Township
CentervilleWest Plains

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

The story so far

Mill Creek Township, in brief

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

Mill Creek Township is a township in Bourbon County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2000 census, its population was 472.

Its first post office opened in 1860. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 523 to 488 (-7%).

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

Timeline

Mill Creek Township, 1860 to 1989

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1860Post officeThe Mill Creek post office opens
  3. 1879Post officeThe Berlin post office opens
  4. 1889Post officeThe Mill Creek post office closes
  5. 1889Post officeThe Devon post office opens
  6. 20th century
  7. 1903Post officeThe Berlin post office closes
  8. 1989Post officeThe Devon post office closes
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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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Famous people

Famous people close to Mill Creek Township

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

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Gordon ParksAmerican photographer, musician, writer and fil… · b. 1912
Hugh Samuel JohnsonAmerican administrator · b. 1882
Clark CliffordAmerican secretary of defense · b. 1906
Elmer McCollumAmerican biochemist · b. 1879
Richard ChristyAmerican drummer · b. 1974
Mark HartAmerican musician · b. 1953
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Scott Township2 historic placesBTimberhill TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townMarion TownshipIts storyB−Freedom Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townFranklin TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townMarmaton TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Mill Creek Township’s history

What year was Mill Creek Township founded?

The Mill Creek Township post office opened in 1860, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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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 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.