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History · Kinghurst Township

11% of Kinghurst Township’s homes were built before 1940

0on the National Register
11%homes built before 1940
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Where Kinghurst Township’s name came from

How did Kinghurst Township get its name?

Kinghurst Township was named for Cyrus M. King, a county commissioner.

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

Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

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

Orchid
1905–1927
Popple
1905–1946
Dora Lake
1913–1918
Dora Lake
1946–1953
19001960today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Dora Lake
Gone or out of use
Dora Lake Post Officepost officeOrchid Post Officepost office
1cemetery inside Kinghurst Township
Popple

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.

Wirt TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townAlvwood TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townGrattan 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 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.