Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: maps from 1958 on and old-book passages.
The Osage Township post office opened in 1864, the earliest record of the town by name.
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 Osage Township’s history is told.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Osage Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Osage Township is a township in Miami County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, its population was 659.
Its first post office opened in 1864. Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 667 in 2010, 659 in 2020.
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Osage Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
that lay on all sides. After a year or two each family had moved on to the claim selected, about six miles east of Osawatomie — the aggregation being henceforth known as the "Irish Settlement'' and which now forms part of Osage Township. This was the begiuning of Holy Trinity Parish, Paola, and was one of the first Catholic settlements in Kansas.
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.
Weddings 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 Osage 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 Osage Township.
Nobody well known was born in Osage Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The Osage Township post office opened in 1864, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
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 U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, 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.
