Guest, Sign inJoin

Post to Grim Township

We’ll email a one-tap link to publish your post. No password, and nothing is public until you click it.
Already a member? Sign in
–Not graded
History · Grim Township

Half of Grim Township’s homes were built after 1980

Most of Grim Township was built recently: 5% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1980. Below: 1 old photo or paper and maps from 1969 on.

0on the National Register
5%homes built before 1940
1old photo or paper
Add an old photoShare a memory
From Grim Township’s archive · credits on each photo

What stands out about Grim 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 Grim Township, and 2 old place names are still on the map.
★ What stands out · Help out

Start Grim Township’s collection

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

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Date a photo1 archive item has no date. Guess the decade.+2Retake an old viewGrim Township, MI location: stand where they stood+15Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners and places now gone

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

Hardluck
1904–1906
Bomanville
1906–1915
19001960today
Hamlets and corners on the map
BowmanvilleHard Luck
Gone or out of use
Bomanville Post Officepost officeHardluck Post Officepost office

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

The story so far

Grim Township, in brief

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

Grim Township is a civil township of Gladwin County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 136 at the 2010 census. Grim Township is the least densely-populated municipality in the state's Lower Peninsula, as well as the Lower Peninsula's third least-populated township after Pointe Aux Barques Township and Zilwaukee Township.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 136 to 126 (-7%).

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

Timeline

Grim Township, 1904 to 1969

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

  1. 20th century
  2. 1904Post officeThe Hardluck post office opens
  3. 1906Post officeThe Hardluck post office closes
  4. 1906Post officeThe Bomanville post office opens
  5. 1915Post officeThe Bomanville post office closes
  6. 1969On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Grim Township, decade by decade

Date unknown1 to date
Grim Township, MI locationDate?Grim Township, MI location
Today1 recent
Grim Township, Michigan2021Grim Township, Michigan
On the map

Grim Township on the map, 1969 to 1984

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

Grim Township on the 1969 USGS mapGrim Township on the 1984 USGS map1969Bentley 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 Grim 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.

Grim Township, MI location
Retake this viewGrim Township, MI location

Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Grim Township’s page.

Retake this view · +15
Famous people

Famous people close to Grim Township

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

See all →
Janae KrocAmerican powerlifter and bodybuilder · b. 1972
H
Homer BlissAmerican football player · b. 1904
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Gibson TownshipIts storyC+Bourret TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townHay TownshipIts storyDSecord TownshipIts storyDBentley TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townAdams TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Grim Township’s history

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

Town Square →
Start a conversation
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.