The Le Roy Township post office opened in 1872, the earliest record of the town by name. Two smaller post offices, Dewings (1900) and Riverbank (1904), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
First census: 134 in 18802020 census: 1,246154 years
How historic is Le Roy Township?
B−
More historic than 47% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
Founding year: the first Le Roy Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓
History grade
What drives Le Roy Township’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Le Roy Township is more historic than 47% of U.S. towns. Its share of homes from before 1940 holds the grade up; its National Register listings pull it down.
B−
HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Le Roy Township’s overall grade.
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 Le Roy Township’s 0.0 sits below most of its state (32% of Michigan towns have fewer) while its 0 listings outnumber those of 23% of U.S. towns.
How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from C to B. The pre-1940 share is a Census survey estimate (±7.0 points). The founding year is the first post office, not a stated founding date.
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 →
What stands out about Le Roy Township’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
A post office in LeRoy has been in operation since 1871, with James E. Bevins serving as postmaster from 1871 to 1895. In 1871 S.L. Kimball, M. Westfall and James Bevins settled in the area, the village of LeRoy was incorporated by an act of the State Legislature on February 2, 1873. The village was named for LeRoy Carr, a land agent representing the federal government in the area.
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Le Roy Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1954Traverse City sheet · 1:250,000
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Le Roy 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.
Retake this viewPlat book of Osceola County, Michigan, 1900
Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Le Roy Township’s page.
The Le Roy Township post office opened in 1872, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
How does Le Roy Township rank for history?
Le Roy Township is more historic than 47% of U.S. towns. 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.
How old are the homes in Le Roy Township?
26% of Le Roy Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±7.0 points), against a typical 12% for a Michigan town; the median home was built in 1982.
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 Wikimedia Commons (6), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), 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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