Guest, Sign inJoin

Post to Pleasant Township

We’ll email a one-tap link to publish your post. No password, and nothing is public until you click it.
Already a member? Sign in
–Not graded
History · Pleasant Township

22% of Pleasant Township’s homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the Home on the Range Cabin. Below: maps from 1893 on.

1on the National Register
22%homes built before 1940
Add an old photoShare a memory

What stands out about Pleasant 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 Pleasant Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Pleasant Township.
★ What stands out · Help out

Start Pleasant Township’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Pleasant Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
Places that used to be

Lost post offices, places now gone and burying grounds

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

Jacksonburg
1884–1899
Uhl
1886–1891
18801950today
Gone or out of use
JacksonburglocaleUhllocale
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Pleasant Township
MeadeZion

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

The story so far

Pleasant Township, in brief

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

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 37 to 33 (-11%).

Timeline

Pleasant Township, 1875 to 1899

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1875BuiltHome on the Range Cabin is built
  3. 1884Post officeThe Jacksonburg post office opens
  4. 1886Post officeThe Uhl post office opens
  5. 1891Post officeThe Uhl post office closes
  6. 1893On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  7. 1899Post officeThe Jacksonburg 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.

Be the first to add onePhotograph a print flat, in daylight, no flash.
Add from your album
On the map

Pleasant Township on the map, 1893 to 1985

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

Pleasant Township on the 1893 USGS mapPleasant Township on the 1985 USGS map1893Smith Center sheet · 1:125,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Pleasant Township.

On the National Register

1 historic place in Pleasant Township

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

place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
1
each building in a district counts
first listed
1973
Home on the Range Cabin
Home on the Range Cabin, built 1875
Buildings
Home on the Range CabinBuilt 1875

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.

Swan TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townMartin TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townWashington TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townLane Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Pleasant Township’s history

What is on the National Register in Pleasant Township?

One place: the Home on the Range Cabin (listed 1973).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

Town Square →
Start a conversation
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 the National Register of Historic Places (1), 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.