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More historic than 59% of U.S. towns · #292 of 701 in Michigan. What drives it
Most of Huron Township was built recently: 5% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1994. Its Register listing is the Waltz Road-Huron River Bridge. Below: 2 old photos and papers and maps from 1906 on.
The Huron Township post office opened in 1833, the earliest record of the town by name. Nine smaller post offices, Huron (1833), Woodville (1852) and Smithville (1858), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
More historic than 59% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Huron Township is more historic than 59% of U.S. towns, #292 of 701 in Michigan. Its age holds the grade up; its share of homes from before 1940 pulls it down.
Few Michigan towns list much on the Register (a typical Michigan town has 0.0 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Huron Township’s 0.6 sits near the middle of its state (64% of Michigan towns have fewer) while its 1 listings outnumber those of 51% of U.S. towns.
Founding year: the first post office (other dates in Quick answers). Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Nine other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Huron Township’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Huron Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Huron Township.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Huron Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Its first post office opened in 1833. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 15,879 to 16,944 (+7%).
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
In the archiveShore of Lake Huron, Pointe aux Barques
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
BuiltWaltz Road-Huron River Bridge is builtOne decade in the archive so far: the 1890s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Huron Township’s page.
Retake this view · +15The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The Huron Township post office opened in 1833, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
Huron Township is more historic than 59% of U.S. towns, #292 of 701 in Michigan. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.
One place: the Waltz Road-Huron River Bridge (listed 2000).
5% of Huron Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±2.5 points), against a typical 12% for a Michigan town; the median home was built in 1994.
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
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).
From the Library of Congress (2), the National Register of Historic Places (1), 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.
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