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History · Eastern Township

15% of Eastern Township’s homes were built before 1940

0on the National Register
15%homes built before 1940
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Where Eastern Township’s name came from

How did Eastern Township get its name?

Eastern Township was organized in 1875, and named from its location on the eastern side of the county.

Name: Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places that used to be

Lost post offices, places now gone and burying grounds

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

Joy
1873–1905
Essex
1886–1894
18701950today
Gone or out of use
Essex Post Officepost officeJoy Post Officepost office
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Eastern Township
Esther Lutheran ChurchOak 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.

Woodside TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townSpruce Hill TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townWykeham TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townParkers Prairie 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 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.