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History · Meyer Township

25% of Meyer Township’s homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the Wisconsin Land and Lumber Company Office Building. Below: maps from 1956 on and the census since 1890.

1on the National Register
25%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Meyer 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 Meyer Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Meyer Township, and 4 old place names are still on the map.Boom and bustPeaked at 1,628 in 1910; 992 people lived here in 2020.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Meyer Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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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

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

Hermansville
1878–today
Cunard
1895–1897
Vesper
1904–1912
18701950today
Hamlets and corners on the map
CunardHermansvilleLeapersVega
Gone or out of use
Vesper Post Officepost office
1cemetery inside Meyer Township
Meyer

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

People over time

Meyer Township, census by census

02004006008001,0001,2001,4001,6001,8001900192019401960198020002020Peak: 1,628

Peaked at 1,628 in 1910; 992 people lived here in 2020.

14 censuses, 1890–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Meyer Township’s Wikipedia page.

The story so far

Meyer Township, in brief

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

Meyer Township is a civil township of Menominee County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 992 at the 2020 census. Most of the population is concentrated in Hermansville, an unincorporated village within the township.

Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 1,001 in 2010, 992 in 2020.

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

Timeline

Meyer Township, 1878 to 1982

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1878Post officeThe Hermansville post office opens
  3. 1895Post officeThe Cunard post office opens
  4. 1897Post officeThe Cunard post office closes
  5. 20th century
  6. 1904Post officeThe Vesper post office opens
  7. 1910CensusPopulation peaks at 1,628
  8. 1912Post officeThe Vesper post office closes
  9. 1956On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  10. 1982BuiltWisconsin Land and Lumber Company Office Building is built
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

Meyer Township on the map, 1956 to 1986

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

Meyer Township on the 1956 USGS mapMeyer Township on the 1986 USGS map1956Foster City 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 Meyer Township.

On the National Register

1 historic place in Meyer Township

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

place listed
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National Historic Landmarks
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historic buildings protected
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each building in a district counts
first listed
1991
Wisconsin Land and Lumber Company Office Buildi…
Wisconsin Land and Lumber Company Office Building, built 1982
Buildings

Architectural styles listings

Late Victorian1
Stick/Eastlake1
Wisconsin Land and Lumber Company Office BuildingLate Victorian · Built 1982

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

Famous people

Famous people close to Meyer Township

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

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Robert J. FlahertyAmerican documentary filmmaker · b. 1884
Delaney SchnellAmerican diver · b. 1998
Art Van DammeAmerican musician · b. 1920
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Nita EnglundAmerican ski jumper · b. 1992
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Anna DeForgeAmerican basketball player · b. 1976
R. James HarveyAmerican politician · b. 1922
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Spalding TownshipIts storyCWaucedah TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townFaithorn TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townNadeau TownshipIts storyB−Breen TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Meyer Township’s history

What is on the National Register in Meyer Township?

One place: the Wisconsin Land and Lumber Company Office Building (listed 1991).

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 the National Register of Historic Places (1), 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.