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History · Fairbanks Township

Fairbanks Township’s post office opened in 1905, and 18% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1957 on.

1905first post office
0on the National Register
18%homes built before 1940
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How Fairbanks Township began

When was Fairbanks Township founded?

1905

The Fairbanks Township post office opened in 1905, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Fairbanks (1905), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 66121 years
Founding year: the first Fairbanks Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Fairbanks 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 Fairbanks Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages1 post office opened and closed inside today’s Fairbanks Township, and 3 old place names are still on the map.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Fairbanks Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
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Places that used to be

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

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

Brimson
1897–today
Fairbanks
1905–1953
18901960today
Hamlets and corners on the map
BredaFairbanksHornby
Gone or out of use
Fairbanks Post Officepost office
1cemetery inside Fairbanks Township
Brimson

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

The story

How Fairbanks Township came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Fairbanks Township.

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A post office called Fairbanks was established in 1905, and remained in operation until 1953. The community was named for Charles W. Fairbanks, 26th Vice President of the United States.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Fairbanks Township, 1897 to 1957

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1897Post officeThe Brimson post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1905Post officeThe Fairbanks post office opens
  5. 1953Post officeThe Fairbanks post office closes
  6. 1957On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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.

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On the map

Fairbanks Township on the map, 1957 to 1982

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

Fairbanks Township on the 1957 USGS mapFairbanks Township on the 1976 USGS mapFairbanks Township on the 1982 USGS map1957Brimson 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 Fairbanks Township.

Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Ault TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townBassett TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Fairbanks Township’s history

What year was Fairbanks Township founded?

The Fairbanks Township post office opened in 1905, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

Memory lane

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

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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, 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.