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History · Pleasant View Township

17% of Pleasant View Township’s homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1945 on.

0on the National Register
17%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Pleasant View Township’s past

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The story so far

Pleasant View Township, in brief

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

Pleasant View Township is a township in Cherokee County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, its population was 585.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 627 to 585 (-7%).

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

Timeline

Pleasant View Township, 1800 to 1985

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1800Post officeThe Lawton post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1945On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  5. 1985Post officeThe Lawton post office closes
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On the map

Pleasant View Township on the map, 1945 to 1978

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

Pleasant View Township on the 1945 USGS mapPleasant View Township on the 1959 USGS mapPleasant View Township on the 1978 USGS map1945Pittsburg 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 View Township.

Famous people

Famous people close to Pleasant View Township

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

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Roy GlennAmerican actor · b. 1914
Dale R. CorsonAmerican scientist · b. 1914
Jake LaTurnerAmerican politician · b. 1988
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Ed NealyAmerican basketball player · b. 1960
Lee AllenAmerican saxophonist · b. 1926
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Ronald Michael GilmoreCatholic bishop · b. 1942
Places that used to be

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

Another post office, Lawton, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Hamlets and corners on the map
Lawton
Gone or out of use
Bird SchoolschoolLangdons SchoolschoolNeutral SchoolschoolOwsley SchoolschoolPleasant ViewlocalePleasant View SchoolschoolRawlings ChapelchurchRice SchoolschoolUnion Schoolschool
4cemeteries and burying grounds inside Pleasant View Township
BirdCrockerLone OakOld Pleasant View

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

Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Baker TownshipIts storyC−Shawnee TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townOpolisIts 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.