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History · Andover Township

30% of Andover Township’s homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1919 on.

0on the National Register
30%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Andover 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 Andover Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The story so far

Andover Township, in brief

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

Andover Township is a township in Polk County, Minnesota, United States. Andover Township was organized in 1877. It is part of the Grand Forks-ND-MN Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population of the township was 154 at the 2000 census. The unincorporated community of Wilds, near the edge of Crookston, and the unincorporated community of Girard are located within Andover Township.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 119 to 109 (-8%).

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

Timeline

Andover Township, 1880 to 1919

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1880Post officeThe Carman post office opens
  3. 1891Post officeThe Carman post office closes
  4. 20th century
  5. 1919On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Andover Township, decade by decade

Today1 recent
Girard minnesota2006Girard minnesota
On the map

Andover Township on the map, 1919 to 1964

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

Andover Township on the 1919 USGS mapAndover Township on the 1964 USGS map1919Beltrami 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 Andover Township.

Places that used to be

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

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

Hamlets and corners on the map
GirardWilds
Gone or out of use
Carman Post Officepost office
1cemetery inside Andover Township
Andover

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

Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Fairfax TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townRoome TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townCrookston4 historic placesA−Lowell TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

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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 Wikimedia Commons (1), 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.