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History · Nahma Township

Nahma Township’s post office opened in 1856, and 11% of its homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the Nahma and Northern Railway Locomotive #5. Below: maps from 1932 on.

1856first post office
1on the National Register
11%homes built before 1940
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How Nahma Township began

When was Nahma Township founded?

1856

The Nahma Township post office opened in 1856, the earliest record of the town by name. Three smaller post offices, Sturgeon River (1891), Saint Jacques (1893) and Saint Jacques (1904), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 468170 years
Founding year: the first Nahma Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Nahma 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 Nahma Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages3 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Nahma Township, and 3 old place names are still on the map.
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Start Nahma Township’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Nahma 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

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

Nahma
1856–today
Sturgeon River
1891–1904
Saint Jacques
1893–1895
Saint Jacques
1904–1955
18501940today
Hamlets and corners on the map
NahmaNahma JunctionSaint Jacques
Gone or out of use
Saint Joseph's Post Officepost office
4cemeteries and burying grounds inside Nahma Township
Indian PointIsabellaNahmaSaint Jacques'

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

The story so far

Nahma Township, in brief

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

Nahma Township is a civil township of Delta County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 468 at the 2020 census, slightly down from 495 at the 2010 census. Nahma was established in 1881 by the Bay De Noquet Lumber Company as the base for its upper Michigan lumbering operations.

Its first post office opened in 1856. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 495 to 468 (-5%).

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

Timeline

Nahma Township, 1856 to 1932

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1856Post officeThe Nahma post office opens
  3. 1891Post officeThe Sturgeon River post office opens
  4. 1893Post officeThe Saint Jacques post office opens
  5. 1895Post officeThe Saint Jacques post office closes
  6. 20th century
  7. 1904Post officeThe Sturgeon River post office closes
  8. 1912BuiltNahma and Northern Railway Locomotive #5 is built
  9. 1932On 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

Nahma Township on the map, 1932 to 1985

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

Nahma Township on the 1932 USGS mapNahma Township on the 1958 USGS mapNahma Township on the 1985 USGS map1932Garden NW and 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 Nahma Township.

On the National Register

1 historic place in Nahma Township

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

place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
1
each building in a district counts
first listed
2007
Nahma and Northern Railway Locomotive #5
Nahma and Northern Railway Locomotive #5, built 1912
Structures

Architectural styles listings

Steam Locomotive1
Nahma and Northern Railway Locomotive #5Steam Locomotive · Built 1912

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

Famous people

Famous people close to Nahma Township

Nobody well known was born in Nahma 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.

Garden Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townMasonville Township1 historic placeBEnsign TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townMunising TownshipIts storyDFairbanks Township3 historic placesnot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Nahma Township’s history

What year was Nahma Township founded?

The Nahma Township post office opened in 1856, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Nahma Township?

One place: the Nahma and Northern Railway Locomotive #5 (listed 2007).

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, 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.