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History · Hobart Township

Hobart Township’s post office opened in 1872

Most of Hobart Township was built recently: 7% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1994.

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How Hobart Township began

When was Hobart Township founded?

1872

The Hobart Township post office opened in 1872, the earliest record of the town by name. Three smaller post offices, New Rose Lake (1871), Hobart (1872) and Lake Sybil (1880), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 798154 years
Founding year: the first Hobart Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Hobart 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 Hobart Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages3 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Hobart Township.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Hobart Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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Places that used to be

Lost post offices, places now gone and burying grounds

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

New Rose Lake
1871–1872
Hobart
1872–1875
Lake Sybil
1880–1892
18701950today
Gone or out of use
Hobart Post Officepost officeLake Sybil Post Officepost office
4cemeteries and burying grounds inside Hobart Township
Fairy LakeFlatauSybil LakeVergas

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

The story so far

Hobart Township, in brief

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

Its first post office opened in 1872. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 778 to 798 (+3%).

Timeline

Hobart Township, 1871 to 1892

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1871Post officeThe New Rose Lake post office opens
  3. 1872Post officeThe New Rose Lake post office closes
  4. 1872Post officeThe Hobart post office opens
  5. 1875Post officeThe Hobart post office closes
  6. 1880Post officeThe Lake Sybil post office opens
  7. 1892Post officeThe Lake Sybil post office closes
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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Stories next door

History across the town line

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

VergasIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townGorman TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townCandor TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townEdna TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townBurlington TownshipIts storyC

Questions about Hobart Township’s history

What year was Hobart Township founded?

The Hobart Township post office opened in 1872, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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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.