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History · Cloverleaf Township

21% of Cloverleaf Township’s homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1973 on.

0on the National Register
21%homes built before 1940
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Photo: Andrew Filer from Seattle (ex-Minneapolis) · CC BY-SA 2.0

What stands out about Cloverleaf 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 Cloverleaf Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Cloverleaf Township, and 1 old place names are still on the map.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Cloverleaf Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
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Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners and places now gone

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

Brunkeberg
1905–1911
Marie
1907–1944
19001960today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Mavie
Gone or out of use
Brunkeberg Post Officepost officeMavie Post Officepost officeMavie Railroad Stationlocale

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

The story

How Cloverleaf Township came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Cloverleaf Township.

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Cloverleaf Township was named for the white clover within its borders.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Cloverleaf Township, 1905 to 1973

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

  1. 20th century
  2. 1905Post officeThe Brunkeberg post office opens
  3. 1907Post officeThe Marie post office opens
  4. 1911Post officeThe Brunkeberg post office closes
  5. 1944Post officeThe Marie post office closes
  6. 1973On 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

Cloverleaf Township on the map in 1973

The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Cloverleaf Township.

Cloverleaf Township on the 1973 USGS map1973Mavie 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 Cloverleaf Township.

Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Goodridge TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townKratka TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townSilverton TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townGrand Plain TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

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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.