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History · Buzzle Township

Buzzle Township’s post office opened in 1900

Most of Buzzle Township was built recently: 8% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1990. Below: maps from 1919 on and the census since 1900.

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How Buzzle Township began

When was Buzzle Township founded?

1900

The Buzzle Township post office opened in 1900, the earliest record of the town by name. Two smaller post offices, Buzzle (1900) and Pinewood (1910), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

First census: 172 in 19002020 census: 306126 years
Founding year: the first Buzzle Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Buzzle 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 Buzzle Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Boom and bustPeaked at 471 in 1940; 306 people lived here in 2020.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Buzzle Township, and 1 old place names are still on the map.On the map since 19193 editions of the USGS map, 1919 to 1972. Watch Buzzle Township change.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Buzzle Township’s history is told.

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People over time

Buzzle Township, census by census

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Peaked at 471 in 1940; 306 people lived here in 2020.

13 censuses, 1900–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Buzzle Township’s Wikipedia page.

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.

Buzzle
1900–1905
Pinewood
1910–1986
19001960today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Pinewood
Gone or out of use
Buzzle Post Officepost officePinewood Post Officepost officePinewood Stationlocale
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Buzzle Township
BuzzlePinewood

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

The story so far

Buzzle Township, in brief

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

Buzzle Township is a township in Beltrami County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 306 as of the 2020 census. Buzzle Township took its name from Buzzle Lake.

Its first post office opened in 1900. Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 310 in 2010, 306 in 2020.

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

Timeline

Buzzle Township, 1900 to 1986

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

  1. 20th century
  2. 1900Post officeThe Buzzle post office opens
  3. 1905Post officeThe Buzzle post office closes
  4. 1910Post officeThe Pinewood post office opens
  5. 1919On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  6. 1940CensusPopulation peaks at 471
  7. 1986Post officeThe Pinewood post office closes
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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

Buzzle Township on the map, 1919 to 1972

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

Buzzle Township on the 1919 USGS mapBuzzle Township on the 1943 USGS mapBuzzle Township on the 1972 USGS map1919Solway sheet · 1:62,500

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Buzzle Township.

Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Liberty TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townRoosevelt Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townLammers TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townDudley TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Buzzle Township’s history

What year was Buzzle Township founded?

The Buzzle Township post office opened in 1900, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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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 U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), 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.