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History · Equality Township

1 of Equality Township’s places is on the National Register

Its Register listing is the Clearwater Evangelical Lutheran Church. Most of Equality Township was built recently: 8% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1997. Below: maps from 1919 on.

1on the National Register
8%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Equality 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 Equality Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.On the map since 19193 editions of the USGS map, 1919 to 1985. Watch Equality Township change.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Equality Township’s history is told.

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On the map

Equality Township on the map, 1919 to 1985

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

Equality Township on the 1919 USGS mapEquality Township on the 1971 USGS mapEquality Township on the 1985 USGS map1919Oklee 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 Equality Township.

The story so far

Equality Township, in brief

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

Equality Township is a township in Red Lake County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 123 at the 2000 census.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 131 to 144 (+10%).

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

Timeline

Equality Township, 1910 to 1919

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

  1. 20th century
  2. 1910Post officeThe Roland post office opens
  3. 1912BuiltClearwater Evangelical Lutheran Church is built
  4. 1917Post officeThe Roland post office closes
  5. 1919On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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On the National Register

1 historic place in Equality Township

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

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first listed
1999
Clearwater Evangelical Lutheran Church
Clearwater Evangelical Lutheran Church, built 1912
Buildings

Architectural styles listings

Late Victorian1
Gothic1
Clearwater Evangelical Lutheran ChurchLate Victorian · Built 1912

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

Famous people

Famous people close to Equality Township

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

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Arnie JohnsonNational Basketball League player · b. 1920
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Ed WidsethAmerican football player · b. 1910
Lorie Skjerven GildeaAmerican judge · b. 1961
Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

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

Hamlets and corners on the map
Roland
Gone or out of use
Roland Post Officepost office
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Equality Township
ClearwaterMount Olive

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.

Johnson TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townGarnes TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townDeer Park TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townChester TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townHickory TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Equality Township’s history

What is on the National Register in Equality Township?

One place: the Clearwater Evangelical Lutheran Church (listed 1999).

Memory lane

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

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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 National Register of Historic Places (1), 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.