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History · Summit Township

100% of Summit Township’s homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1955 on.

0on the National Register
100%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Summit 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 Summit Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages4 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Summit Township, and 1 old place names are still on the map.Old housesHalf of Summit Township’s homes were built before 1938.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Summit 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.
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Places that used to be

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

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

Ten Mile
1871–1879
Cransdale
1872–1877
Half Way
1877–1900
Macyville
1879–1905
18701950today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Macyville
Gone or out of use
Half Waylocale
3cemeteries and burying grounds inside Summit Township
Summit 3SummitWest Summit

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

The story so far

Summit Township, in brief

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

Summit Township is a township in Cloud County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, its population was 51.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 49 to 51 (+4%).

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

Timeline

Summit Township, 1871 to 1955

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1871Post officeThe Ten Mile post office opens
  3. 1872Post officeThe Cransdale post office opens
  4. 1877Post officeThe Cransdale post office closes
  5. 1877Post officeThe Half Way post office opens
  6. 1879Post officeThe Ten Mile post office closes
  7. 20th century
  8. 1900Post officeThe Half Way post office closes
  9. 1955On 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

Summit Township on the map in 1955

The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Summit Township.

Summit Township on the 1955 USGS map1955Manhattan sheet · 1:250,000

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

Famous people

Famous people close to Summit Township

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

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Charles J. ChaputAmerican Catholic prelate · b. 1944
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Rodger WardAmerican racecar driver · b. 1921
Frank CarlsonAmerican politician who served as the 30th Gove… · b. 1893
Helen TalbotAmerican actress · b. 1924
George NorlinAmerican academic administrator · b. 1871
Nancy MoritzAmerican judge · b. 1960
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Solomon Township2 historic placesnot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townArion TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townBuffalo TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townGrant TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townAsherville 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.