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History · Caribou Township

Caribou Township’s post office opened in 1905, and 1 of its places is on the National Register

Most of Caribou Township was built recently: 10% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1971. Its Register listing is the St. Nicholas Orthodox Church. Below: maps from 1930 on.

1905first post office
1on the National Register
10%homes built before 1940
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How Caribou Township began

When was Caribou Township founded?

1905

The Caribou Township post office opened in 1905, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Caribou (1905), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 32121 years
Founding year: the first Caribou Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Caribou 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 Caribou Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The story

How Caribou Township came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Caribou Township.

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The community of Caribou was settled in the early 1900s by Ukrainian immigrants.

St. Nicholas Orthodox Church in Caribou is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Caribou Township, 1905 to 1930

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

  1. 20th century
  2. 1905Post officeThe Caribou post office opens
  3. 1919Post officeThe Caribou post office closes
  4. 1930On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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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

Caribou Township on the map, 1930 to 1966

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

Caribou Township on the 1930 USGS mapCaribou Township on the 1966 USGS map1930Juneberry sheet · 1:31,680

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

On the National Register

1 historic place in Caribou Township

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

place listed
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National Historic Landmarks
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none yet
historic buildings protected
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each building in a district counts
first listed
1984
St. Nicholas Orthodox Church
St. Nicholas Orthodox Church
Buildings
St. Nicholas Orthodox ChurchBuilding

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

Places that used to be

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

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

Hamlets and corners on the map
Caribou
Gone or out of use
Caribou Post Officepost officeRed Top SchoolschoolSaint Pauls ChurchchurchWest Schoolschool
4cemeteries and burying grounds inside Caribou Township
Hewett FamilyNorth PrairieSaint John'sSaint Michaels Greek Orthodox

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

Questions about Caribou Township’s history

What year was Caribou Township founded?

The Caribou Township post office opened in 1905, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Caribou Township?

One place: the St. Nicholas Orthodox Church (listed 1984).

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 Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (1), 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.