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History · Pleasant Valley Township

10% of Pleasant Valley Township’s homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1938 on.

0on the National Register
10%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Pleasant Valley 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 Valley 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 Valley Township.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Pleasant Valley Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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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.

Mound Springs
1870–1872
Ward
1872–1901
18701950today
Gone or out of use
Grandview SchoolschoolGreen Valley SchoolschoolMaple Grove SchoolschoolMound Springs SchoolschoolOmega SchoolschoolPleasant Valley ChurchchurchThornburg SchoolschoolWardlocaleWard Schoolschool
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Pleasant Valley Township
Pleasant ValleyPleasant Valley

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

The story so far

Pleasant Valley Township, in brief

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

Pleasant Valley Township is a township in Wilson County, Kansas, United States.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 219 to 178 (-19%).

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

Timeline

Pleasant Valley Township, 1870 to 1938

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1870Post officeThe Mound Springs post office opens
  3. 1872Post officeThe Mound Springs post office closes
  4. 1872Post officeThe Ward post office opens
  5. 20th century
  6. 1901Post officeThe Ward post office closes
  7. 1938On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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 map

Pleasant Valley Township on the map, 1938 to 1963

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

Pleasant Valley Township on the 1938 USGS mapPleasant Valley Township on the 1943 USGS mapPleasant Valley Township on the 1963 USGS map1938Altoona sheet · 1:62,500

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

Famous people

Famous people close to Pleasant Valley Township

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

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Gilbert BakerAmerican artist and gay rights activist · b. 1951
Walter JohnsonAmerican Hall of Fame baseball player · b. 1887
Oren E. LongAmerican politician · b. 1889
George W. MaloneAmerican politician · b. 1890
Barbara MorganAmerican artist and photographer · b. 1900
Jennifer KnappAmerican Christian musician · b. 1974
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Guilford TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townChetopa TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townCanville TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townColfax TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townCedar TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

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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 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.