Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Most of Reeder Township was built recently: 9% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1984. Its Register listing is the Samuel J. Tipton House. Its Register listing is the Samuel J. Tipton House.
The Reeder Township post office opened in 1882, the earliest record of the town by name. Six smaller post offices, Cresco (1858), Mineral Point (1862) and Central City (1870), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
Reeder Township was named for Andrew Horatio Reeder, first Territorial Governor of Kansas.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Six other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Reeder Township’s history is told.
From Wikipedia’s history of Reeder Township.
Reeder Township was established in 1857. It was named for Andrew Horatio Reeder, first Territorial Governor of Kansas.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Nobody well known was born in Reeder Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The Reeder Township post office opened in 1882, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
One place: the Samuel J. Tipton House (listed 1975).
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 the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikipedia, 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.
