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History · Butler Township

Butler Township’s post office opened in 1897, and 17% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1969 on.

1897first post office
0on the National Register
17%homes built before 1940
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How Butler Township began

When was Butler Township founded?

1897

The Butler Township post office opened in 1897, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Butler (1897), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 256129 years
Founding year: the first Butler Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Butler Township’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Butler Township’s history is told.

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The story

How Butler Township came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Butler Township.

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Butler Township was organized in 1883, and named for Stephen Butler, a county official.

Between 1900 and 1910, the township's population exploded more than five-fold with a large influx of immigrants and other arrivals, with an increase in population from 260 in 1900 to 1,439 in 1910.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Butler Township, 1897 to 1969

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1897Post officeThe Butler post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1954Post officeThe Butler post office closes
  5. 1969On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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On the map

Butler Township on the map, 1969 to 1986

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

Butler Township on the 1969 USGS mapButler Township on the 1986 USGS map1969Butler 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 Butler Township.

Places that used to be

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

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

Hamlets and corners on the map
Butler
Gone or out of use
Butler Post Officepost office
1cemetery inside Butler Township
Holy Cross

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.

Corliss TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townSpruce Grove TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townPaddock TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townHomestead TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Butler Township’s history

What year was Butler Township founded?

The Butler Township post office opened in 1897, 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 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.