The story
Read it all →How Spring Township came to be
From Wikipedia’s history of Spring Township.
Spring Township was organized in 1871. It was named on account of its numerous springs.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
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History · Spring Township
Half of Spring Township’s homes were built after 1989
More historic than 24% of U.S. towns. What drives it
Most of Spring Township was built recently: 9% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1989. Below: maps from 1961 on.
0on the National Register
9%homes built before 1940
Quick answers
Where Spring Township’s name came from
How did Spring Township get its name?
Spring Township was named on account of its numerous springs.
How historic is Spring Township?
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What drives the grade ↓More historic than 24% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
Name: Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.The full story ↓
History grade
What drives Spring Township’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Spring Township is more historic than 24% of U.S. towns. Its share of homes from before 1940 holds the grade up; its National Register listings pull it down.
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HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Spring Township’s overall grade.
Founding eraNo founding year we can rely on, so the grade uses the other two–Homes built before 19409.2% of homes (±11.2) · typical KS town 10.3% · U.S. 8.4%C+National RegisterNo listings counted · typical KS town 5.1 per 10,000 · U.S. 2.4C−
All U.S. towns we grade (21,289)Ahead of 24%
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Kansas towns list more on the Register than most of the country (a typical Kansas town has 5.1 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Spring Township’s 0.0 sits below most of its state (19% of Kansas towns have fewer) while its 0 listings outnumber those of 23% of U.S. towns.
How sure. Graded on two of the three inputs, so a change in either one moves the letter more than it would with three. The pre-1940 share is a Census survey estimate (±11.2 points).
Founding year: our sources. Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →
What stands out about Spring Township’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
★ What stands out · Help out
Start Spring Township’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Spring Township’s history is told.
Decades since 1900 with photos
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.Timeline
Spring Township, 1880 to 1961
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
- 19th century
- 1880Post officeThe Haverhill post office opens
- 20th century
- 1933Post officeThe Haverhill post office closes
- 1961
On 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.
Be the first to add onePhotograph a print flat, in daylight, no flash.
Add from your albumOn the map
Spring Township on the map, 1961 to 1979
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Spring Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1961Augusta sheet · 1:24,000U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Spring Township.
Famous people
See all →Famous people close to Spring Township
Nobody well known was born in Spring Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Places that used to be
Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds
Another post office, Haverhill, opened and closed inside today’s town.
Hamlets and corners on the map
HaverhillPickrell Corner
Gone or out of use
Haverhill Oil FieldoilfieldSmock-Sluss Oil Fieldoilfield
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Spring Township
Butts-WakefieldGarrison
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.
Questions about Spring Township’s history
How does Spring Township rank for history?
Spring Township is more historic than 24% of U.S. towns. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.
How old are the homes in Spring Township?
9% of Spring Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±11.2 points), against a typical 10% for a Kansas town; the median home was built in 1989.
Memory lane
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
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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).
From Wikipedia, 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.