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History · Norwich Township

13% of Norwich Township’s homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1958 on.

0on the National Register
13%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Norwich Township’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

Lost villages5 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Norwich Township, and 1 old place names are still on the map.A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Norwich Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
★ What stands out · Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

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

Home
1867–1882
Woodville
1874–1935
Hungerford
1876–1906
Lumberton
1880–1886
Keno
1889–1897
18601940today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Woodville
Gone or out of use
Hungerford Post Officepost officeHungerford StationlocaleKeno Post Officepost officeLumberton Post Officepost officeLumberton StationlocaleWoodville Post Officepost officeWoodville Stationlocale
3cemeteries and burying grounds inside Norwich Township
HungerfordLawrence FarmWoodville

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

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Start Norwich Township’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Norwich 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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The story so far

Norwich Township, in brief

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

Norwich Township is a civil township of Newaygo County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 547 at the 2020 census.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 607 to 547 (-10%).

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

Timeline

Norwich Township, 1867 to 1958

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1867Post officeThe Home post office opens
  3. 1874Post officeThe Woodville post office opens
  4. 1876Post officeThe Hungerford post office opens
  5. 1882Post officeThe Home post office closes
  6. 20th century
  7. 1906Post officeThe Hungerford post office closes
  8. 1935Post officeThe Woodville post office closes
  9. 1958On 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

Norwich Township on the map, 1958 to 1985

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

Norwich Township on the 1958 USGS mapNorwich Township on the 1985 USGS map1958Woodville 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 Norwich Township.

Famous people

Famous people close to Norwich Township

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

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Thomas D. SchallAmerican lawyer and politician · b. 1878
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Harold CronkAmerican film director and producer · b. 1974
Jim WrightAmerican baseball player · b. 1950
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Bull WagnerAmerican baseball player · b. 1887
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Doug A. RinglerAmerican accountant
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John W. BlodgettAmerican lumberman, civic leader, and philanthr… · b. 1860
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Barton TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townMonroe TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townBig Rapids TownshipIts storyCGoodwell TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

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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.