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History · Clow Township

22% of Clow Township’s homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1952 on.

0on the National Register
22%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Clow 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 Clow Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Clow Township, and 1 old place names are still on the map.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Clow Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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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.

Boulder
1897–1904
Orleans
1904–1984
18901960today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Orleans
Gone or out of use
Orleans Post Officepost office

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

The story so far

Clow Township, in brief

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

Clow Township is a township in Kittson County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 37 at the 2000 census. Clow Township bears the surname of two early settlers.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 46 to 33 (-28%).

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

Timeline

Clow Township, 1897 to 1984

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1897Post officeThe Boulder post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1904Post officeThe Boulder post office closes
  5. 1904Post officeThe Orleans post office opens
  6. 1952On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  7. 1984Post officeThe Orleans post office closes
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On the map

Clow Township on the map, 1952 to 1974

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

Clow Township on the 1952 USGS mapClow Township on the 1967 USGS mapClow Township on the 1974 USGS map1952Thief River Falls sheet · 1:250,000

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

Famous people

Famous people close to Clow Township

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

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Marie Louise Bottineau BaldwinChippewa and Metis, first Native American gradu… · b. 1863
R. G. FergusonCanadian physician · b. 1883
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Tommy GibbScottish footballer · b. 1944
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Austin BriggsCartoonist · b. 1908
Larry OlsonoskiAmerican football player · b. 1925
Colleen KikoAmerican lawyer · b. 1950
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

St. Vincent Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townRichardville TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townHampden 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 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.