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History · Daggett Township

Daggett Township’s post office opened in 1880, and 31% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: 2 old photos and papers, maps from 1963 on, and the census since 1910.

1880first post office
0on the National Register
31%homes built before 1940
2old photos & papers
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Photo: Royalbroil · CC BY-SA 3.0
Quick answers

How Daggett Township began

When was Daggett Township founded?

1880

The Daggett Township post office opened in 1880, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 228 in 19102020 census: 614146 years
Founding year: the first Daggett Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Daggett 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 writtenOnly 2 old photos are in the public archives. The rest are in attics and albums.Boom and bustPeaked at 366 in 1970; 201 people lived here in 2020.Old housesHalf of Daggett Township’s homes were built before 1963.
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Start Daggett Township’s collection

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

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
1 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Retake an old viewBildo's Museum Bar: stand where they stood+15Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
People over time

Daggett Township, census by census

0100200300400192019401960198020002020Peak: 366

Peaked at 366 in 1970; 201 people lived here in 2020.

12 censuses, 1910–2020.

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

The story

How Daggett Township came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Daggett Township.

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Daggett was originally named "Section 25". The name "Daggett" refers either to Elmira Daggett, a New York native who came to the area to visit her brother and is then said to have become the village's first postmistress, or to postmistress Clara Daggett's father (a native of Elmira, New York), the father-in-law of the village's founder, Thomas Faulkner.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Daggett Township, 1880 to 1980

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1880Post officeThe Daggett post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1963On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  5. 1970CensusPopulation peaks at 366
  6. 1980In the archiveBildo's Museum Bar
By decade

Daggett Township, decade by decade

One decade in the archive so far: the 1980s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.

1980s2 items
Bildo's Museum Bar1980Bildo's Museum BarBildo's Museum Bar1980Bildo's Museum Bar
1990snothing yet
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Add from your album
Today3 recent
DaggettMichiganSignUS412010DaggettMichiganSignUS41DaggettMichiganSchoolUS412010DaggettMichiganSchoolUS41DaggettMichiganDowntownUS412010DaggettMichiganDowntownUS41
On the map

Daggett Township on the map, 1963 to 1982

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

Daggett Township on the 1963 USGS mapDaggett Township on the 1982 USGS map1963Stephenson sheet · 1:62,500

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

Then & now

Stand where they stood

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.

Bildo's Museum Bar
Retake this viewBildo's Museum Bar, 1980

Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Daggett Township’s page.

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Places that used to be

Old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

Old hamlets and crossroads still carry their names on the map.

Hamlets and corners on the map
Daggett
Gone or out of use
Dagget Stationlocale
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Daggett Township
DaggettOakwood

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

Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Stephenson TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townNadeau TownshipIts storyB−Cedarville Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townHolmes TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Daggett Township’s history

What year was Daggett Township founded?

The Daggett Township post office opened in 1880, 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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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 Wikimedia Commons (5), 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.