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History · Inwood Township

Half of Inwood Township’s homes were built after 1977

Most of Inwood Township was built recently: 7% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1977. Below: maps from 1931 on.

0on the National Register
7%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Inwood 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 Inwood Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages1 post office opened and closed inside today’s Inwood Township, and 4 old place names are still on the map.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Inwood 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

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

Cooks
1888–today
Cooks
1888–today
Steuben
1903–1956
18801950today
Hamlets and corners on the map
CooksElkhornSpringerSteuben
Gone or out of use
Steuben Post Officepost officeSteuben Stationlocale
3cemeteries and burying grounds inside Inwood Township
CooksOld CooksSeventh Day Adventist

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

The story so far

Inwood Township, in brief

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

Inwood Township is a civil township of Schoolcraft County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 654 in 2020.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 733 to 654 (-11%).

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

Timeline

Inwood Township, 1888 to 1956

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1888Post officeThe Cooks post office opens
  3. 1888Post officeThe Cooks post office opens
  4. 20th century
  5. 1903Post officeThe Steuben post office opens
  6. 1931On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  7. 1956Post officeThe Steuben 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

Inwood Township on the map, 1931 to 1983

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

Inwood Township on the 1931 USGS mapInwood Township on the 1958 USGS mapInwood Township on the 1983 USGS map1931Steuben SW sheet · 1:31,680

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

Famous people

Famous people close to Inwood Township

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

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Robert John CornellAmerican priest, professor, and politician · b. 1919
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Frank SmithCartoon animator and film director from the Uni… · b. 1911
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Elizabeth EmryAll-American Girls Professional Baseball League… · b. 1923
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Thompson TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townGarden Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townHiawatha TownshipIts storyCMunising TownshipIts storyD

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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.