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History · Goodar Township

Goodar Township’s post office opened in 1909, and 16% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1968 on.

1909first post office
0on the National Register
16%homes built before 1940
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How Goodar Township began

When was Goodar Township founded?

1909

The Goodar Township post office opened in 1909, the earliest record of the town by name. Three smaller post offices, Hunt (1889), Maltby (1900) and Goodar (1909), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 350117 years
Founding year: the first Goodar Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Goodar 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 Goodar Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages3 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Goodar Township, and 2 old place names are still on the map.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Goodar 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

Three other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.

Hunt
1889–1893
South Branch
1893–today
Maltby
1900–1927
Goodar
1909–1914
18801950today
Hamlets and corners on the map
GoodarSouth Branch
Gone or out of use
Goodar Post Officepost officeMaltby Post Officepost officeMaltby StationlocaleSouth Branch Stationlocale
1cemetery inside Goodar Township
Oak Grove

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

The story so far

Goodar Township, in brief

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

Goodar Township is a civil township of Ogemaw County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 350 at the 2020 census, which makes it the least-populated municipality in the county.

Its first post office opened in 1909. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 398 to 350 (-12%).

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

Timeline

Goodar Township, 1889 to 1968

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1889Post officeThe Hunt post office opens
  3. 1893Post officeThe Hunt post office closes
  4. 1893Post officeThe South Branch post office opens
  5. 20th century
  6. 1900Post officeThe Maltby post office opens
  7. 1927Post officeThe Maltby post office closes
  8. 1968On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

No old photos in the archives yet

Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

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On the map

Goodar Township on the map, 1968 to 1984

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

Goodar Township on the 1968 USGS mapGoodar Township on the 1984 USGS map1968South Branch 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 Goodar Township.

Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Rose TownshipIts storyCPlainfield TownshipIts storyC−Mentor TownshipIts storyDHill TownshipIts storyCLuptonIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Goodar Township’s history

What year was Goodar Township founded?

The Goodar Township post office opened in 1909, 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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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, 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.