Guest, Sign inJoin

Post to Wisner Township

We’ll email a one-tap link to publish your post. No password, and nothing is public until you click it.
Already a member? Sign in
–Not graded
History · Wisner Township

Wisner Township dates to 1861, and 12% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1963 on.

1861founded
0on the National Register
12%homes built before 1940
Add an old photoShare a memory
Quick answers

How Wisner Township began

When was Wisner Township founded?

1861

Wisner Township dates its founding to 1861 (Wikipedia’s history). Its post office opened in 1886.

2020 census: 604165 years
Founding year: Wikipedia. First post office: 1886.

What stands out about Wisner 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 Wisner Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages1 post office opened and closed inside today’s Wisner Township, and 3 old place names are still on the map.Old housesHalf of Wisner Township’s homes were built before 1963.
★ What stands out · Help out

Start Wisner Township’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Wisner Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
Places that used to be

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

Another post office, Quanicassee City, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Hamlets and corners on the map
BradleyvilleOakhurstQuanicassee
Gone or out of use
Quanicassee City Post Officepost officeWisner Oil Fieldoilfield
1cemetery inside Wisner Township
Wisner

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

The story so far

Wisner Township, in brief

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

Wisner Township is a civil township of Tuscola County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 604 at the 2020 census. The first land entries in this area were made by Joshua Terry in 1853, by Green Bird in 1854, and by Isaiah Jester in 1855. The township was first organized in 1861 and named after Moses Wisner, Governor of Michigan from 1859 to 1861.

Wisner Township was established in 1861. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 690 to 604 (-12%).

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

Timeline

Wisner Township, 1861 to 1963

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1861
    FoundingWisner Township is established
  3. 1886Post officeThe Quanicassee City post office opens
  4. 20th century
  5. 1902Post officeThe Quanicassee City post office closes
  6. 1963On 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.

Be the first to add onePhotograph a print flat, in daylight, no flash.
Add from your album
On the map

Wisner Township on the map, 1963 to 1984

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

Wisner Township on the 1963 USGS mapWisner Township on the 1974 USGS mapWisner Township on the 1984 USGS map1963Quanicassee 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 Wisner Township.

Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Akron TownshipIts storyB−Gilford TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townHampton TownshipIts storyC−

Questions about Wisner Township’s history

What year was Wisner Township founded?

In 1861, according to Wikipedia’s history of the town. Wisner Township’s post office opened in 1886.

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

Town Square →
Start a conversation
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). 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.