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History · Blooming Grove Township

Blooming Grove Township’s post office opened in 1864, and 36% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1962 on.

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How Blooming Grove Township began

When was Blooming Grove Township founded?

1864

The Blooming Grove Township post office opened in 1864, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Blooming Grove (1864), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 568162 years
Founding year: the first Blooming Grove Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Blooming Grove 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 Blooming Grove Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Blooming Grove Township’s homes were built before 1955.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Blooming Grove Township’s history is told.

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The story so far

Blooming Grove Township, in brief

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

Blooming Grove Township is a township in Waseca County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 568 at the 2020 census. Blooming Grove Township was organized in 1858, and named for groves of blooming wild plum trees within its borders.

Its first post office opened in 1864. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 525 to 568 (+8%).

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

Timeline

Blooming Grove Township, 1864 to 1962

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1864Post officeThe Blooming Grove post office opens
  3. 1879Post officeThe Blooming Grove post office closes
  4. 20th century
  5. 1962On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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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

Blooming Grove Township on the map, 1962 to 1985

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

Blooming Grove Township on the 1962 USGS mapBlooming Grove Township on the 1985 USGS map1962Morristown 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 Blooming Grove Township.

Places that used to be

Lost post offices and burying grounds

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

3cemeteries and burying grounds inside Blooming Grove Township
Blooming Grove MethodistEmmanuelNorth Waseca

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.

Woodville TownshipIts storyC−Deerfield TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townMorristown Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townIosco TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Blooming Grove Township’s history

What year was Blooming Grove Township founded?

The Blooming Grove Township post office opened in 1864, 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.