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History · Dwight Township

18% of Dwight Township’s homes were built before 1940

Below: 1 old photo or paper and maps from 1970 on.

0on the National Register
18%homes built before 1940
1old photo or paper
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What stands out about Dwight 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 1 old photo is in the public archives. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Dwight Township, and 1 old place names are still on the map.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Dwight 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 viewPlat book of Huron County, Michigan - a…: stand where they stood+15Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
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.

Hellems
1895–1895
Varney
1899–1905
18901960today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Kinde
Gone or out of use
Hellems Post Officepost officeVarney Post Officepost officeVarney Stationlocale
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Dwight Township
Saint EdwardsSaint Mary's Polish Catholic

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

The story so far

Dwight Township, in brief

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

Dwight Township is a civil township of Huron County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 708 at the 2020 census.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 758 to 708 (-7%).

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

Timeline

Dwight Township, 1895 to 1970

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1895Post officeThe Hellems post office opens
  3. 1895Post officeThe Hellems post office closes
  4. 1899Post officeThe Varney post office opens
  5. 20th century
  6. 1904In the archivePlat book of Huron County, Michigan - also patron's business and general farmer's directo…
  7. 1905Post officeThe Varney post office closes
  8. 1970On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Dwight Township, decade by decade

One decade in the archive so far: the 1900s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.

1900s1 item
Plat book of Huron County, Michigan - also patron's business and general farmer's directory of Huron Co., Mich. - with …1904Plat book of Huron County, Michigan - also patron's b…
1910s–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.
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Today1 recent
Dwight Township, MI location2019Dwight Township, MI location
On the map

Dwight Township on the map, 1970 to 1984

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

Dwight Township on the 1970 USGS mapDwight Township on the 1984 USGS map1970Kinde East 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 Dwight 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.

Plat book of Huron County, Michigan - also patron's business and general farmer's directory of Huron Co., Mich. - with …
Retake this viewPlat book of Huron County, Michigan - also patron's business and general farmer's directory of Huron Co., Mich. - with …, 1904

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Famous people

Famous people close to Dwight Township

Nobody well known was born in Dwight 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
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Napoleon ChagnonAmerican anthropologist · b. 1938
Helen Thompson GaigeAmerican herpetologist · b. 1890
David C. ClarkAmerican politician · b. 1926
Dick LangeAmerican baseball player · b. 1948
George LincolnAmerican military officer, educator, and author · b. 1907
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Hume TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townLincoln TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townHuron TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townPort Austin Township6 historic placesB

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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 (2), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, 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.