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Photo: SharonPapierdreams · CC BY-SA 4.04 places in town are on the National Register. Below: 1 old photo or paper, maps from 1889 on, and the census since 1880.
Vermillion Township dates its founding to 1869 (Wikipedia’s history). The census first counted it in 1880.
Vermillion Township was named from the Black Vermillion River.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Vermillion Township’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Vermillion Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Vermillion Township.
Peaked at 366 in 1910; 76 people lived here in 2020.
14 censuses, 1880–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Vermillion Township’s Wikipedia page.
From Wikipedia’s history of Vermillion Township.
Vermillion was founded in 1869 by the Missouri Pacific Railroad. It was named from the Black Vermillion River.
The first post office in Vermillion was established in May 1870.
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.
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
In the archiveVermillion, KS - Dec. 30, 1907
BuiltRobidoux Creek Pratt Truss Bridge is builtOne decade in the archive so far: the 1900s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Vermillion Township’s page.
Retake this view · +15The 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.
Another post office, Barrett, 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).
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
In 1869, according to Wikipedia’s history of the town. Vermillion Township’s post office opened in 1857, and the census of 1880 counted 122 people here.
4 listings: 1 building, among them the Barrett Schoolhouse (listed 1973, the first), and 1 structure.
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 Wikimedia Commons (2), the National Register of Historic Places (2), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via 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.
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