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History · Delaware Township

19% of Delaware Township’s homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1963 on and the census since 2000.

0on the National Register
19%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Delaware 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 Delaware Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Delaware Township, and 2 old place names are still on the map.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Delaware 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.

Forestville
1856–today
Charleston
1872–1908
Snay
1892–1901
18501940today
Hamlets and corners on the map
CharlestonForestville
Gone or out of use
Charleston Post Officepost officeSnay Post Officepost office
7cemeteries and burying grounds inside Delaware Township
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US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

The story

How Delaware Township came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Delaware Township.

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Forestville is a village in the township on M-25 along the Lake Huron shore. The Forestville ZIP code 48434 provides P.O. Box only service for a small portion of the township near the village.

Charleston is a historical settlement in the township at 43°39′33″N 82°41′10″W. It was first settled about 1864 and called "Cato". A post office named "Charleston" was established in December 1872. The entire settlement, consisting of 21 buildings, was destroyed by the Thumb Fire in September 1881. The settlement was rebuilt but is today little more than a crossroads.

The postal delivery areas of some nearby communities also serve the township:

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Delaware Township, 1856 to 1963

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1856Post officeThe Forestville post office opens
  3. 1872Post officeThe Charleston post office opens
  4. 1892Post officeThe Snay post office opens
  5. 20th century
  6. 1901Post officeThe Snay post office closes
  7. 1908Post officeThe Charleston post office closes
  8. 1963On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

No old photos in the archives yet

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On the map

Delaware Township on the map, 1963 to 1984

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

Delaware Township on the 1963 USGS mapDelaware Township on the 1984 USGS map1963Ruth 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 Delaware Township.

People over time

Delaware Township, census by census

02004006008001,00020002020Peak: 930

Between 784 and 930 people in every census since 2000.

3 censuses, 2000–2020.

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

Famous people

Famous people close to Delaware Township

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

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Frank MurphyU.S. Supreme Court justice from 1940 to 1949 · b. 1890
Helen Thompson GaigeAmerican herpetologist · b. 1890
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Jon HorstAmerican basketball player · b. 1983
Cyrus K. BettisAmerican air racer · b. 1893
David C. ClarkAmerican politician · b. 1926
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Colleen HoweSports agent · b. 1933
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

ForestvilleIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townSherman TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townMinden TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townMarion TownshipIts storyB−Forester TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

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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 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.