The story
Read it all →How Tyrone Township came to be
From Wikipedia’s history of Tyrone Township.
The area was first settled as early as 1849 and formally organized as a civil township in 1855.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
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History · Tyrone Township
16% of Tyrone Township’s homes were built before 1940
More historic than 42% of U.S. towns · #439 of 701 in Michigan. What drives it
Below: maps from 1985 on.
0on the National Register
16%homes built before 1940
Quick answers
About Tyrone Township’s history
How historic is Tyrone Township?
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What drives the grade ↓More historic than 42% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
History grade
What drives Tyrone Township’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Tyrone Township is more historic than 42% of U.S. towns, #439 of 701 in Michigan. Its share of homes from before 1940 holds the grade up; its National Register listings pull it down.
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HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Tyrone Township’s overall grade.
Founding eraNo founding year we can rely on, so the grade uses the other two–Homes built before 194016.1% of homes (±5.0) · typical MI town 11.9% · U.S. 8.4%BNational RegisterNo listings counted · typical MI town 0.0 per 10,000 · U.S. 2.4C
All U.S. towns we grade (21,289)Ahead of 42%
NewerOlder
Michigan towns of 2,500+ (701)Ahead of 37%
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 Tyrone 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 two of the three inputs, so a change in either one moves the letter more than it would with three. The pre-1940 share is a Census survey estimate (±5.0 points).
Founding year: our sources. 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 Tyrone Township’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
★ What stands out · Help out
Start Tyrone Township’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Tyrone Township’s history is told.
Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.Places that used to be
Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds
Another post office, Ball Creek, opened and closed inside today’s town.
Ball Creek
Kent City
18701950today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Green Acres Mobile Home ParkKent CityKent City Mobile Home Park
Gone or out of use
Perrins Post Officepost office
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Tyrone Township
ChubbuckIdlewild
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Timeline
Tyrone Township, 1873 to 1985
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
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.
Be the first to add onePhotograph a print flat, in daylight, no flash.
Add from your albumOn the map
Tyrone Township on the map in 1985
The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Tyrone Township.
1985Cedar Springs sheet · 1:100,000U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Tyrone Township.
Famous people
See all →Famous people close to Tyrone Township
Nobody well known was born in Tyrone Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
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Sean LewisAmerican soccer player · b. 1992
Stories next door
History across the town line
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Questions about Tyrone Township’s history
How does Tyrone Township rank for history?
Tyrone Township is more historic than 42% of U.S. towns, #439 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 Tyrone Township?
16% of Tyrone Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±5.0 points), against a typical 12% for a Michigan town; the median home was built in 1977.
Memory lane
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
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Sources
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).
From Wikipedia, 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.