Guest, Sign inJoin

Post to Dudley Township

We’ll email a one-tap link to publish your post. No password, and nothing is public until you click it.
Already a member? Sign in
–Not graded
History · Dudley Township

12% of Dudley Township’s homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1985 on.

0on the National Register
12%homes built before 1940
Add an old photoShare a memory

What stands out about Dudley 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 Dudley Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
★ What stands out · Help out

Start Dudley Township’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Dudley Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
The story

How Dudley Township came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Dudley Township.

Read it all →

Voters met and signed a petition in 1899 asking that Township 148, Range 36 be organized as a township under the laws of the state of Minnesota. The laws were followed to the Beltrami County Board's satisfaction and it was ordered that the first election be held on Friday, May 19, 1899, at the home of William McCrehin and further ordered that the township be named Dudley.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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.

Be the first to add onePhotograph a print flat, in daylight, no flash.
Add from your album
On the map

Dudley Township on the map in 1985

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

Dudley Township on the 1985 USGS map1985Fosston sheet · 1:100,000

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

Famous people

Famous people close to Dudley Township

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

See all →
Arnie JohnsonNational Basketball League player · b. 1920
Wes WestrumAmerican baseball player and coach · b. 1922
S
Steve KnutsonAmerican football player · b. 1951
E
Ed WidsethAmerican football player · b. 1910
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Holst TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townBuzzle TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townShevlin Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townSinclair TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townRoosevelt Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Dudley Township’s history

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

Town Square →
Start a conversation
Sources

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 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.