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History · Evergreen Township

33% of Evergreen Township’s homes were built before 1940

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

0on the National Register
33%homes built before 1940

What stands out about Evergreen Township’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

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

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The story so far

Evergreen Township, in brief

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

Evergreen Township is a civil township of Sanilac County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 961 at the 2020 census.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 924 to 961 (+4%).

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

Timeline

Evergreen Township, 1884 to 1963

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1884Post officeThe Shabbona post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1916Post officeThe Shabbona post office closes
  5. 1963On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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No old photos in the archives yet

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On the map

Evergreen Township on the map, 1963 to 1984

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

Evergreen Township on the 1963 USGS mapEvergreen Township on the 1984 USGS map1963Shabbona 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 Evergreen Township.

People over time

Evergreen Township, census by census

02004006008001,00020002020Peak: 995

Between 924 and 995 people in every census since 2000.

3 censuses, 2000–2020.

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

Famous people

Famous people close to Evergreen Township

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

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Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

Another post office, Shabbona, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Hamlets and corners on the map
Shabbona
Gone or out of use
Shabonna Post Officepost office
1cemetery inside Evergreen Township
Evergreen

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.

Questions about Evergreen Township’s history

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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 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.