Guest, Sign inJoin

Post to Hartland 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 · Hartland Township

50% of Hartland Township’s homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1967 on and the census since 1880.

0on the National Register
50%homes built before 1940
Add an old photoShare a memory

What stands out about Hartland 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 Hartland Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Hartland Township’s homes were built before 1940.
★ What stands out · Help out

Start Hartland Township’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Hartland 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 Hartland Township came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Hartland Township.

Read it all →

Hartland was platted in 1877. The name is derived from Hartland, Vermont.

On December 15, 2021, parts of Hartland sustained significant damage after the town was struck by an EF2 tornado. The tornado was one of over 100 to occur during the December 2021 Midwest derecho and tornado outbreak.

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

Hartland Township on the map, 1967 to 1985

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

Hartland Township on the 1967 USGS mapHartland Township on the 1985 USGS map1967Hartland sheet · 1:24,000

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

People over time

Hartland Township, census by census

010020030018801900192019401960198020002020Peak: 331

Between 107 and 331 people in every census since 1880.

14 censuses, 1880–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Hartland Township’s Wikipedia page.

Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Freeborn TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townManchester TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townNew Richland TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townBath TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Hartland 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, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia) 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.