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History · Audubon Township

18% of Audubon Township’s homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1959 on and the census since 1880.

0on the National Register
18%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Audubon 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 Audubon Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Audubon Township.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Audubon 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, places now gone and burying grounds

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

Oak Lake
1872–1874
Angola
1880–1882
18701950today
Gone or out of use
Angola Post Officepost officeAngola StationlocaleOak Lake Post Officepost office
6cemeteries and burying grounds inside Audubon Township
AudubonCook FamilyCook FamilyFelkerFelker FamilyImmanuel

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

The story so far

Audubon Township, in brief

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

Audubon ( AW-də-bən) is a city in Becker County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 560 at the 2020 census.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 548 to 646 (+18%).

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

From the old history books

What they wrote about Audubon Township in 1907

Passages that mention Audubon Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.

The first school in Becker County, outside the reservation was taught by Miss Nancy M. Comstock, in the fall of 1871, in a house belonging to Henry Way, in what is now school district number three in Audubon Township. The first school taught in Becker Count}^ in a legally organized school district,…
A pioneer history of Becker County, Minnesota, including a brief account of its natural history ... and a history of the early settlement of the county1907 · page 225Read the page →
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The first school in Becker County, outside the reservation was taught by Miss Nancy M. Comstock, in the fall of 1871, in a house belonging to Henry Way, in what is now school district number three in Audubon Township. The first school taught in Becker Count}^ in a legally organized school district, was in district number one in the village of Detroit, by Miss Lottie Frank, beginning on the second day of July 1872.

Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.

Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.

Timeline

Audubon Township, 1872 to 1959

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1872Post officeThe Oak Lake post office opens
  3. 1874Post officeThe Oak Lake post office closes
  4. 1880Post officeThe Angola post office opens
  5. 1882Post officeThe Angola post office closes
  6. 20th century
  7. 1959On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Audubon Township, decade by decade

Today2 recent
Audubon MN with Water Tower2013Audubon MN with Water TowerAudubon MN downtown2013Audubon MN downtown
On the map

Audubon Township on the map, 1959 to 1982

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

Audubon Township on the 1959 USGS mapAudubon Township on the 1982 USGS map1959Audubon 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 Audubon Township.

People over time

Audubon Township, census by census

010020030040050060018801900192019401960198020002020560

Grew from 91 people in 1880 to 560 in 2020, 6 times over.

15 censuses, 1880–2020.

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

Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Hamden TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townLake Park TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townLake Eunice TownshipIts storyC−Detroit TownshipIts storyC−

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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 (2), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.