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History · Deer Township

14% of Deer Township’s homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1918 on.

0on the National Register
14%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Deer Township’s past

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The story so far

Deer Township, in brief

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

Deer Township is a township in Roseau County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 92 at the 2000 census. Deer Township was named for the fact deer were commonly hunted there.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 105 to 109 (+4%).

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

Timeline

Deer Township, 1901 to 1918

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

  1. 20th century
  2. 1901Post officeThe Herb post office opens
  3. 1915Post officeThe Herb post office closes
  4. 1918On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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On the map

Deer Township on the map, 1918 to 1962

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

Deer Township on the 1918 USGS mapDeer Township on the 1962 USGS map1918Greenbush 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 Deer Township.

Places that used to be

Lost post offices, places now gone and burying grounds

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

Gone or out of use
Herb Post Officepost office
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Deer Township
BethlehemPoplar Grove

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.

Huss TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townHereim TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townHuntly TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townLind 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.