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History · Hubbard Township

Hubbard Township’s post office opened in 1884, and 10% of its homes were built before 1940

1884first post office
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How Hubbard Township began

When was Hubbard Township founded?

1884

The Hubbard Township post office opened in 1884, the earliest record of the town by name. Two smaller post offices, Manter (1880) and Hubbard (1884), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 770142 years
Founding year: the first Hubbard Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Hubbard 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 Hubbard Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Hubbard Township, and 1 old place names are still on the map.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Hubbard 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

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

Manter
1880–1884
Hubbard
1884–1966
18801950today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Hubbard
Gone or out of use
Cary AirportairportHubbard Post Officepost office
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Hubbard Township
BethelHubbard

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

The story so far

Hubbard Township, in brief

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

Hubbard is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in the western part of Hubbard Township, Hubbard County, Minnesota, United States. It is in southern Hubbard County, along Minnesota State Highway 87, at the outlet of Long Lake. Park Rapids is 8 miles (13 km) to the northwest. As of the 2020 census, Hubbard had a population of 56. Hubbard was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census.

Its first post office opened in 1884. Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 784 in 2010, 770 in 2020.

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

Timeline

Hubbard Township, 1880 to 1966

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1880Post officeThe Manter post office opens
  3. 1884Post officeThe Manter post office closes
  4. 1884Post officeThe Hubbard post office opens
  5. 20th century
  6. 1966Post officeThe Hubbard 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.

Straight River TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townHenrietta TownshipIts storyCCrow Wing Lake TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townShell River TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Hubbard Township’s history

What year was Hubbard Township founded?

The Hubbard Township post office opened in 1884, 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.