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History · Granville Township

31% of Granville Township’s homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1941 on.

0on the National Register
31%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Granville Township’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

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The story so far

Granville Township, in brief

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

Granville Township is a township in Kittson County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 104 at the 2000 census. Granville Township was organized in 1885.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 83 to 65 (-22%).

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

Timeline

Granville Township, 1900 to 1941

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

  1. 20th century
  2. 1900Post officeThe Bonish post office opens
  3. 1902Post officeThe Bonish post office closes
  4. 1941On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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On the map

Granville Township on the map, 1941 to 1974

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

Granville Township on the 1941 USGS mapGranville Township on the 1974 USGS map1941Hallock 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 Granville Township.

Places that used to be

Lost post offices, places now gone and burying grounds

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

Gone or out of use
Bonish Post Officepost officeEast Granville SchoolschoolGrasshopper SchoolschoolWest Granville Schoolschool
1cemetery inside Granville Township
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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.

Richardville TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townLancasterIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townHampden TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townPoppleton TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townThompson 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.