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History · Haight Township

Half of Haight Township’s homes were built after 1977

Most of Haight Township was built recently: 7% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1977. Below: maps from 1952 on.

0on the National Register
7%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Haight 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 Haight Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages4 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Haight Township, and 3 old place names are still on the map.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Haight Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
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

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

Robbins
1891–1911
Barclay
1892–1904
Paulding
1893–1971
Roselawn
1908–1931
18901960today
Hamlets and corners on the map
PauldingRobbinsSleepy Hollow
Gone or out of use
Paulding Post Officepost officePaulding StationlocaleRobbins Post Officepost office
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Haight Township
BarclayMaple Grove

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

The story so far

Haight Township, in brief

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

Haight Township is a civil township of Ontonagon County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 203 at the 2020 census.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 212 to 203 (-4%).

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

Timeline

Haight Township, 1891 to 1971

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1891Post officeThe Robbins post office opens
  3. 1892Post officeThe Barclay post office opens
  4. 1893Post officeThe Paulding post office opens
  5. 20th century
  6. 1904Post officeThe Barclay post office closes
  7. 1911Post officeThe Robbins post office closes
  8. 1952On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  9. 1971Post officeThe Paulding post office closes
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

Haight Township on the map, 1952 to 1999

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

Haight Township on the 1952 USGS mapHaight Township on the 1982 USGS mapHaight Township on the 1999 USGS map1952Watersmeet sheet · 1:62,500

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Haight Township.

Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Interior TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townMcMillan Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townStannard TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townWatersmeet Township1 historic placeB−Marenisco 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 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.