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History · Noble Township

Noble Township’s post office opened in 1884, and 22% of its homes were built before 1940

1884first post office
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How Noble Township began

When was Noble Township founded?

1884

The Noble Township post office opened in 1884, the earliest record of the town by name. Three smaller post offices, Noble Centre (1849), Noble (1884) and Burrows (1892), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 458142 years
Founding year: the first Noble Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Noble 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 Noble Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages3 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Noble Township.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Noble Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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Places that used to be

Lost post offices, places now gone and burying grounds

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

Noble Centre
1849–1884
Noble
1884–1903
Burrows
1892–1901
18401930today
Gone or out of use
Burrows Post Officepost officeNoble Post Officepost office
4cemeteries and burying grounds inside Noble Township
CurtisDutch SettlementPleasant HillTrayer

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

The story so far

Noble Township, in brief

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

Noble Township is a civil township of Branch County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 458 at the 2020 census. There are no incorporated municipalities in the primarily agricultural township. There are no named settlements or unincorporated communities.

Its first post office opened in 1884. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 520 to 458 (-12%).

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

Timeline

Noble Township, 1849 to 1903

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1849Post officeThe Noble Centre post office opens
  3. 1884Post officeThe Noble Centre post office closes
  4. 1884Post officeThe Noble post office opens
  5. 1892Post officeThe Burrows post office opens
  6. 20th century
  7. 1901Post officeThe Burrows post office closes
  8. 1903Post officeThe Noble 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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Famous people

Famous people close to Noble Township

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

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Verne TroyerAmerican actor · b. 1969
Marlin StutzmanAmerican politician · b. 1976
June MacCloyAmerican actress · b. 1909
Perle MestaSocialite · b. 1889
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Frank BeloteAmerican sprinter and high jumper · b. 1883
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Paul WeatherwaxAmerican film editor · b. 1900
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Bronson Township1 historic placeB+Fawn River TownshipIts storyBGilead TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Noble Township’s history

What year was Noble Township founded?

The Noble Township post office opened in 1884, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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 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.