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History · Brush Creek Township

Brush Creek Township’s post office opened in 1873, and 59% of its homes were built before 1940

1873first post office
0on the National Register
59%homes built before 1940
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How Brush Creek Township began

When was Brush Creek Township founded?

1873

The Brush Creek Township post office opened in 1873, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Brush Creek (1873), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 188153 years
Founding year: the first Brush Creek Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).
Famous people

Famous people close to Brush Creek Township

Nobody well known was born in Brush Creek Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Places that used to be

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

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

Hamlets and corners on the map
Brush Creek
Gone or out of use
Brush Creek Post Officepost office
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Brush Creek Township
Brush CreekNorth Blue Earth Lutheran

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.

Questions about Brush Creek Township’s history

What year was Brush Creek Township founded?

The Brush Creek Township post office opened in 1873, 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 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.