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History · Badoura Township

Badoura Township’s post office opened in 1896

Most of Badoura Township was built recently: 7% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1981. Below: maps from 1970 on.

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How Badoura Township began

When was Badoura Township founded?

1896

The Badoura Township post office opened in 1896, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Badoura (1896), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 152130 years
Founding year: the first Badoura Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Badoura Township’s past

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The story so far

Badoura Township, in brief

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

Badoura Township is a township in Hubbard County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 152 at the 2020 census. Badoura Township was named for Mary Badoura Mow, the wife of an early settler.

Its first post office opened in 1896. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 128 to 152 (+19%).

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

Timeline

Badoura Township, 1896 to 1970

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1896Post officeThe Badoura post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1915Post officeThe Badoura post office closes
  5. 1970On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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On the map

Badoura Township on the map in 1970

The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Badoura Township.

Badoura Township on the 1970 USGS map1970Oshawa 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 Badoura Township.

Places that used to be

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

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

Hamlets and corners on the map
Badoura
Gone or out of use
Badoura Post Officepost officeBadoura Railroad Stationlocale
1cemetery inside Badoura Township
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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.

McKinley TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townCrow Wing Lake TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townWhite Oak TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townDeerfield TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Badoura Township’s history

What year was Badoura Township founded?

The Badoura Township post office opened in 1896, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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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, 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.