Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Most of Norwich Township was built recently: 7% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1981. Below: maps from 1956 on and the census since 1890.
The Norwich Township post office opened in 1879, the earliest record of the town by name. Three smaller post offices, Norwich (1879), Moorestown (1882) and Stittsville (1885), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Norwich Township’s history is told.
Lost two-thirds of its people between 1900 and 1930, then more than doubled.
14 censuses, 1890–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Norwich Township’s Wikipedia page.
Three other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
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 Missaukee County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 631 at the 2020 census.
Its first post office opened in 1879. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 611 to 631 (+3%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Norwich Township.
1956Houghton Lake sheet · 1:62,500U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Norwich Township.
Nobody well known was born in Norwich Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The Norwich Township post office opened in 1879, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
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, 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.
