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History · Amor Township

Amor Township’s post office opened in 1878, and 23% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1912 on and the census since 1880.

1878first post office
0on the National Register
23%homes built before 1940
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How Amor Township began

When was Amor Township founded?

1878

The Amor Township post office opened in 1878, the earliest record of the town by name. Two smaller post offices, Amor (1878) and Vida (1899), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

First census: 208 in 18802020 census: 481148 years
Founding year: the first Amor Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Amor 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 Amor Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Amor Township, and 1 old place names are still on the map.
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Start Amor Township’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Amor 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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Places that used to be

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

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

Amor
1878–1906
Vida
1899–1904
18701950today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Amor
Gone or out of use
Amor Post Officepost officeSchool Number 104schoolSchool Number 170schoolSchool Number 241schoolVida Post Officepost office
3cemeteries and burying grounds inside Amor Township
OakwoodOtter Tail County SanitoriumZion Lutheran Church

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

The story so far

Amor Township, in brief

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

Amor Township is a township in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 481 at the 2020 census. Amor Township was organized in 1879, and named for the Latin word meaning "love".

Its first post office opened in 1878. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 495 to 481 (-3%).

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

Timeline

Amor Township, 1878 to 1912

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1878Post officeThe Amor post office opens
  3. 1899Post officeThe Vida post office opens
  4. 20th century
  5. 1904Post officeThe Vida post office closes
  6. 1906Post officeThe Amor post office closes
  7. 1912On 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

Amor Township on the map, 1912 to 1973

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

Amor Township on the 1912 USGS mapAmor Township on the 1973 USGS map1912Battle Lake 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 Amor Township.

People over time

Amor Township, census by census

010020030040050060018801900192019401960198020002020Peak: 558

Between 208 and 558 people in every census since 1880.

15 censuses, 1880–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Amor Township’s Wikipedia page.

Famous people

Famous people close to Amor Township

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

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Duane ChristophersonAmerican football coach · b. 1930
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Emery FletcherAmerican religious leader · b. 1868
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Erle WhitingAmerican Latter Day Saints leader · b. 1876
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Rupert FletcherAmerican religious leader · b. 1896
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Everts TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townMaine Township2 historic placesnot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townOtter Tail Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townDead Lake TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Amor Township’s history

What year was Amor Township founded?

The Amor Township post office opened in 1878, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

Memory lane

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

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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, 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.