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History · Hickory Township

53% of Hickory Township’s homes were built before 1940

0on the National Register
53%homes built before 1940
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Where Hickory Township’s name came from

How did Hickory Township get its name?

Hickory Township was named for its bitternut hickory trees.

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

Lost post offices, places now gone and burying grounds

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

Hilda
1905–1915
Rudell
1905–1922
Neptune
1909–1932
Homme
1913–1915
Liegaard
1913–1914
19001960today
Gone or out of use
Hilda Post Officepost officeHomme Post Officepost officeLiegaard Post Officepost officeNeptune Post Officepost officeRudell Post Officepost office
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Hickory Township
Little OakNazareth

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 townDeer Park TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townStar TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townEquality Township1 historic placenot 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.