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History · Vernon Township

Vernon Township’s post office opened in 1873, and 31% of its homes were built before 1940

1873first post office
0on the National Register
31%homes built before 1940
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How Vernon Township began

When was Vernon Township founded?

1873

The Vernon Township post office opened in 1873, the earliest record of the town by name. Two smaller post offices, Vernon (1873) and Kellogg (1884), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 431153 years
Founding year: the first Vernon Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Vernon 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 Vernon Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Vernon Township, and 1 old place names are still on the map.
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Start Vernon Township’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Vernon 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

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

Vernon
1873–1876
Kellogg
1884–1910
18701950today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Kellogg
Gone or out of use
AlbrightlocaleEasterly SchoolschoolElsberry SchoolschoolFair View SchoolschoolHill View SchoolschoolJackson SchoolschoolMount Vernon ChurchchurchMount Zion ChurchchurchNorth Vernon SchoolschoolRichardson Landing FieldairportSlick-Carson Oil FieldoilfieldValley View SchoolschoolWeathered Oil Fieldoilfield
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Vernon Township
Mount VernonMount Zion

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

The story so far

Vernon Township, in brief

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

Vernon Township is a township in Cowley County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, its population was 431.

Its first post office opened in 1873. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 484 to 431 (-11%).

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

Timeline

Vernon Township, 1873 to 1910

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1873Post officeThe Vernon post office opens
  3. 1876Post officeThe Vernon post office closes
  4. 1884Post officeThe Kellogg post office opens
  5. 20th century
  6. 1910Post officeThe Kellogg post office closes
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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Famous people

Famous people close to Vernon Township

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

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Eugene PalletteAmerican actor · b. 1889
Lionel HollinsAmerican basketball player and coach · b. 1953
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Darren E. BurrowsAmerican actor · b. 1966
Ira DavenportAmerican track athlete, baseball player, Americ… · b. 1887
Jesse BeamsAmerican physicist · b. 1898
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Frank Marshall DavisUnited States writer, political and labor movem… · b. 1905
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Walnut TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townWinfield13 historic placesA−Oxford Township1 historic placeA−Ninnescah TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townBeaver TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townPleasant Valley Township2 historic placesnot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Vernon Township’s history

What year was Vernon Township founded?

The Vernon Township post office opened in 1873, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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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 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.