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History · Big Bend Township

62% of Big Bend Township’s homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1958 on.

0on the National Register
62%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Big Bend 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 Big Bend Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Big Bend Township’s homes were built before 1938.
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The story

How Big Bend Township came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Big Bend Township.

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Big Bend Township was organized in 1874, and was named from a meander in the Chippewa River.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Big Bend Township, 1872 to 1958

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1872Post officeThe Hagan post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1907Post officeThe Hagan post office closes
  5. 1958On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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No old photos in the archives yet

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On the map

Big Bend Township on the map in 1958

The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Big Bend Township.

Big Bend Township on the 1958 USGS map1958Watson 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 Big Bend Township.

Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners and places now gone

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

Hamlets and corners on the map
Big Bend CityHagan
Gone or out of use
Hagan Post Officepost officeHagan Post Officepost office

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.

Tunsberg Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townWest Bank TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townMandt TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townKragero 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 Wikipedia, 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.