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History · Township 6

23% of Township 6’s homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1892 on.

0on the National Register
23%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Township 6’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 Township 6, and 3 old place names are still on the map.A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Township 6 are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.On the map since 18923 editions of the USGS map, 1892 to 1985. Watch Township 6 change.
★ 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.

Haynesville
1877–1887
Armistead
1879–1887
Carmi
1879–1891
Irene
1884–1887
Cairo
1887–1922
Natrona
1888–1890
18701950today
Hamlets and corners on the map
CairoNatronaWaldeck
Gone or out of use
ArmisteadlocaleBarnes Southwest Oil FieldoilfieldCarmilocaleHayesvillelocale
4cemeteries and burying grounds inside Township 6
FriendshipHaynesvillePleasant ValleySaint Pauls Lutheran

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

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Start Township 6’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Township 6’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
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On the map

Township 6 on the map, 1892 to 1985

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Township 6. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Township 6 on the 1892 USGS mapTownship 6 on the 1967 USGS mapTownship 6 on the 1985 USGS map1892Pratt sheet · 1:125,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Township 6.

The story

How Township 6 came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Township 6.

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Township 6 was created in the 1970s from the former townships of Carmi, Haynesville, and Logan Townships as well as part of the former Valley Township.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Township 6, 1877 to 1892

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1877Post officeThe Haynesville post office opens
  3. 1879Post officeThe Armistead post office opens
  4. 1879Post officeThe Carmi post office opens
  5. 1887Post officeThe Haynesville post office closes
  6. 1887Post officeThe Armistead post office closes
  7. 1891Post officeThe Carmi post office closes
  8. 1892On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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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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Famous people

Famous people close to Township 6

Nobody well known was born in Township 6 itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Bill FarmerAmerican voice actor · b. 1952
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Ernie BarrettAmerican basketball player · b. 1929
Brad ZieglerAmerican baseball player · b. 1979
Everett SheltonAmerican football player, basketball coach, col… · b. 1898
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Mary Francis ShuraUS writer · b. 1923
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Mary Jo TaylorAmerican politician · b. 1953
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Township 7Its storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townMiami TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townTownship 12Its storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townDresden TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

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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). How TownRatings grades history →

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.