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History · Humboldt Township

Humboldt Township’s post office opened in 1870, and 20% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1955 on.

1870first post office
0on the National Register
20%homes built before 1940
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How Humboldt Township began

When was Humboldt Township founded?

1870

The Humboldt Township post office opened in 1870, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Humboldt (1870), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 413156 years
Founding year: the first Humboldt Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Humboldt 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 Humboldt Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages1 post office opened and closed inside today’s Humboldt Township, and 3 old place names are still on the map.
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Start Humboldt Township’s collection

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

Decades since 1900 with photos
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Places that used to be

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

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

Hamlets and corners on the map
HumboldtHumboldt MineWobic
Gone or out of use
Black River SchoollocaleHumboldt Post Officepost officeHumboldt Stationlocale
1cemetery inside Humboldt Township
Humboldt

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

The story so far

Humboldt Township, in brief

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

Humboldt Township is a civil township of Marquette County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 413 at the 2020 census, down from 464 in 2010. It contains a portion of the census-designated place of Republic.

Its first post office opened in 1870. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 464 to 413 (-11%).

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

Timeline

Humboldt Township, 1870 to 1955

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1870Post officeThe Humboldt post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1936Post officeThe Humboldt post office closes
  5. 1955On 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

Humboldt Township on the map, 1955 to 1975

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

Humboldt Township on the 1955 USGS mapHumboldt Township on the 1975 USGS map1955Republic SW 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 Humboldt Township.

Famous people

Famous people close to Humboldt Township

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

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Glenn Theodore SeaborgAmerican chemist · b. 1912
Kelly JohnsonAmerican aerospace engineer · b. 1910
John D. VoelkerAmerican judge and writer · b. 1903
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Bob ChaseAmerican sportscaster · b. 1926
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Dennis F. DonovanUnited States federal judge · b. 1889
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Joseph L. DonovanAmerican politician, Minnesota · b. 1893
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Republic Township1 historic placeB+Ely Township1 historic placeBChampion TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townSagola Township1 historic placeB−

Questions about Humboldt Township’s history

What year was Humboldt Township founded?

The Humboldt Township post office opened in 1870, 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.