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History · Chandler Township

1 of Chandler Township’s places is on the National Register

Its Register listing is the Gardner House. Most of Chandler Township was built recently: 9% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1975. Below: maps from 1986 on and the census since 2000.

1on the National Register
9%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Chandler 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 Chandler Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Chandler Township.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Chandler Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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Places that used to be

Lost post offices, places now gone and burying grounds

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

Spring Vale
1879–1919
Dot
1880–1901
18701950today
Gone or out of use
Dot Post Officepost officeSpring Vale Post Officepost office
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Chandler Township
ChandlerHoward

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

The story so far

Chandler Township, in brief

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

Chandler Township is a civil township of Charlevoix County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 284 at the 2020 census.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 248 to 284 (+15%).

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

Timeline

Chandler Township, 1879 to 1986

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1879Post officeThe Spring Vale post office opens
  3. 1880Post officeThe Dot post office opens
  4. 20th century
  5. 1901Post officeThe Dot post office closes
  6. 1919Post officeThe Spring Vale post office closes
  7. 1986On 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

Chandler Township on the map in 1986

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

Chandler Township on the 1986 USGS map1986Thumb Lake sheet · 1:24,000

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

On the National Register

1 historic place in Chandler Township

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

place listed
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National Historic Landmarks
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none yet
historic buildings protected
1
each building in a district counts
first listed
1971
Gardner House
Gardner House
Buildings

Architectural styles listings

Victorian1
Gardner HouseVictorian

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

People over time

Chandler Township, census by census

010020030020002020Peak: 284

Between 230 and 284 people in every census since 2000.

3 censuses, 2000–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Chandler Township’s Wikipedia page.

Famous people

Famous people close to Chandler Township

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

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Claude ShannonAmerican mathematician and information theorist · b. 1916
Megan BooneAmerican actress · b. 1983
David MalpassAmerican economist · b. 1956
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Hal SmithAmerican actor · b. 1916
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Kaila KuhnAmerican freestyle skier · b. 2003
Britta PhillipsAmerican musician · b. 1963
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Hudson TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townMelrose TownshipIts storyC+Springvale TownshipIts storyCWilmot TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Chandler Township’s history

What is on the National Register in Chandler Township?

One place: the Gardner House (listed 1971).

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 National Register of Historic Places (1), 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.