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History · De Tour Village

De Tour Village was first counted by the census in 1900, and 14% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1964 on and the census since 1900.

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How De Tour Village began

When was De Tour Village founded?

1900

De Tour Village first appears in the census in 1900.

First census: 880 in 19002020 census: 263126 years
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What stands out about De Tour Village’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 De Tour Village are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The story

How De Tour Village came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of De Tour Village.

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The place was originally an Ojibwe settlement. It was connected with the fur trade and over time it came to have a large Metis population. Over time the Metis inhabitants were redefined as being French-Canadian.

The area was organized in 1850 as Warren Township, named after Ebenezer Warren, the first postmaster of the township. The settlement was called Warrenville on an 1848 map. The name was changed to Detour in 1856 when a new postmaster, Henry A. Williams, assumed office. It incorporated as a village in 1899. The spelling was changed to "DeTour" in 1953 and the post office was renamed "DeTour Village" in 1961.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

By decade

De Tour Village, decade by decade

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On the map

De Tour Village on the map in 1964

The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of De Tour Village.

De Tour Village on the 1964 USGS map1964De Tour Village 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 De Tour Village.

People over time

De Tour Village, census by census

02004006008001900192019401960198020002020Peak: 880

Between 263 and 880 people in every census since 1900.

13 censuses, 1900–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on De Tour Village’s Wikipedia page.

Questions about De Tour Village’s history

What year was De Tour Village founded?

The De Tour Village post office opened in 1900, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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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 Wikimedia Commons (1), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps and U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.