Tittabawassee Township’s post office opened in 1856
More historic than 22% of U.S. towns · #626 of 701 in Michigan. What drives it
Most of Tittabawassee Township was built recently: 5% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1994. Below: 2 old photos and papers and maps from 1962 on.
From Tittabawassee Township’s archive · credits on each photo
Quick answers
How Tittabawassee Township began
When was Tittabawassee Township founded?
1856
The Tittabawassee Township post office opened in 1856, the earliest record of the town by name. Two smaller post offices, Jay (1856) and Tittabawassee (1856), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
2020 census: 10,606170 years
How historic is Tittabawassee Township?
C−
More historic than 22% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
Founding year: the first Tittabawassee Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).
History grade
What drives Tittabawassee Township’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Tittabawassee Township is more historic than 22% of U.S. towns, #626 of 701 in Michigan. Its age holds the grade up; its National Register listings pull it down.
C−
HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Tittabawassee Township’s overall grade.
Few Michigan towns list much on the Register (a typical Michigan town has 0.0 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Tittabawassee Township’s 0.0 sits below most of its state (32% of Michigan towns have fewer) while its 0 listings outnumber those of 23% of U.S. towns.
How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from C− to C. The pre-1940 share (±2.7 points) is firm at this size. The founding year is the first post office, not a stated founding date.
Founding year: the first post office (other dates in Quick answers). Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →
What stands out about Tittabawassee Township’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds
Two other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.
Jay
1856–1879
Tittabawassee
1856–1859
Freeland
1879–today
18501940today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Falconview Estates Mobile Home ParkFreelandFreeland Mobile Home Park
Gone or out of use
Tittabawassee Post Officepost officeTri City Army Air Fieldmilitary
6cemeteries and burying grounds inside Tittabawassee Township
Chapel HillGerman Lutheran ChurchJacquithPine GroveVasoldWest Side
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
The story so far
Tittabawassee Township, in brief
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Tittabawassee Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Tittabawassee Township ( TIH-tə-bə-WAH-see) is a civil township of Saginaw County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The 2020 Census placed the population at 10,606. The township is named for the Tittabawassee River.
Its first post office opened in 1856. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 9,726 to 10,606 (+9%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Timeline
Tittabawassee Township, 1856 to 1962
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Tittabawassee Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1962Auburn sheet · 1:24,000
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Tittabawassee Township.
Then & now
Stand where they stood
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
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Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Tittabawassee Township’s page.
The Tittabawassee Township post office opened in 1856, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
How does Tittabawassee Township rank for history?
Tittabawassee Township is more historic than 22% of U.S. towns, #626 of 701 in Michigan. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.
How old are the homes in Tittabawassee Township?
5% of Tittabawassee Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±2.7 points), against a typical 12% for a Michigan town; the median home was built in 1994.
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).
From Wikimedia Commons (3), 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.
Date?
2017
