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History · Sheridan Township

60% of Sheridan Township’s homes were built before 1940

0on the National Register
60%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Sheridan Township’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

Lost villages6 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Sheridan Township, and 1 old place names are still on the map.A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Sheridan Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Sheridan Township’s homes were built before 1938.
★ What stands out · Places that used to be

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

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

Sherman City
1867–1894
New Memphis
1874–1876
Star Valley
1876–1895
Friendship
1889–1901
Sherman
1894–1964
Starvale
1895–1898
18601940today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Sherman
Gone or out of use
Camp Number SixlocaleCross Roads SchoolschoolFriendship SchoolschoolHarley SchoolschoolLiberty SchoolschoolMorrow SchoolschoolMount Olive SchoolschoolPleasant Hill SchoolschoolRising Sun SchoolschoolSherman CitylocaleStar SchoolschoolStarvalelocaleVan Sluke Schoolschool
8cemeteries and burying grounds inside Sheridan Township
BorlandFriendship Friends ChurchHarleyLarueMcKeeRigneyShermanStar

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

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The story

How Sheridan Township came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Sheridan Township.

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Sheridan was issued a post office in 1876. The post office was discontinued in 1888.

The Denver Extension of the Kansas Pacific Railroad was completed near Sheridan in 1868.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Sheridan Township, 1867 to 1895

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1867Post officeThe Sherman City post office opens
  3. 1874Post officeThe New Memphis post office opens
  4. 1876Post officeThe New Memphis post office closes
  5. 1876Post officeThe Star Valley post office opens
  6. 1894Post officeThe Sherman City post office closes
  7. 1895Post officeThe Star Valley post office closes
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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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Famous people

Famous people close to Sheridan Township

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

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ZaSu PittsAmerican actress · b. 1894
Buck ClaytonAmerican jazz trumpeter · b. 1911
Jamie Anne AllmanAmerican actress · b. 1977
Shaun HillAmerican football player · b. 1980
T. Claude RyanAmerican aviator · b. 1898
William Richard ScottAmerican sociologist · b. 1932
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Lola TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townMontana TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townRoss Township2 historic placesnot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townOsage 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 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.