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History · Boon Lake Township

Boon Lake Township’s post office opened in 1882, and 23% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1967 on.

1882first post office
0on the National Register
23%homes built before 1940
1famous people
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How Boon Lake Township began

When was Boon Lake Township founded?

1882

The Boon Lake Township post office opened in 1882, the earliest record of the town by name. Two smaller post offices, Lake Side (1871) and Boon Lake (1882), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 355144 years
Founding year: the first Boon Lake Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Boon Lake 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 Boon Lake Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Boon Lake Township, and 1 old place names are still on the map.
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Start Boon Lake Township’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Boon Lake 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, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

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

Lake Side
1871–1902
Boon Lake
1882–1902
18701950today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Lakeside
Gone or out of use
Lakeside Post Officepost office
1cemetery inside Boon Lake Township
Evergreen

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

The story

How Boon Lake Township came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Boon Lake Township.

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Boon Lake Township was organized in 1870, and named after Boon Lake.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Boon Lake Township, 1871 to 1967

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1871Post officeThe Lake Side post office opens
  3. 1882Born hereSarah Ramsland is born here
  4. 1882Post officeThe Boon Lake post office opens
  5. 20th century
  6. 1902Post officeThe Lake Side post office closes
  7. 1902Post officeThe Boon Lake post office closes
  8. 1967On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

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

Boon Lake Township on the map, 1967 to 1986

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

Boon Lake Township on the 1967 USGS mapBoon Lake Township on the 1986 USGS map1967Lake Allie 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 Boon Lake Township.

Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Preston Lake TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townBrookfield TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townCedar Mills TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townLynn TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Boon Lake Township’s history

What year was Boon Lake Township founded?

The Boon Lake Township post office opened in 1882, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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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, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, 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.