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History · Lansing Township

Lansing Township’s post office opened in 1857, and 40% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1954 on and the census since 1880.

1857first post office
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40%homes built before 1940
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Quick answers

How Lansing Township began

When was Lansing Township founded?

1857

The Lansing Township post office opened in 1857, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 144 in 18802020 census: 906169 years
Founding year: the first Lansing Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Lansing 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 Lansing Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Boom and bustPeaked at 181 in 2010; 132 people lived here in 2020.Old housesHalf of Lansing Township’s homes were built before 1953.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Lansing Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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People over time

Lansing Township, census by census

010020018801900192019401960198020002020Peak: 181

Peaked at 181 in 2010; 132 people lived here in 2020.

3 censuses, 1880–2020.

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

The story

How Lansing Township came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Lansing Township.

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Lansing was platted in 1858, and named after Lansing, Michigan. A post office has been in operation at Lansing since 1857.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Lansing Township, 1857 to 2010

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1857Post officeThe Lansing post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1954On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  5. 21st century
  6. 2010CensusPopulation peaks at 181
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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On the map

Lansing Township on the map in 1954

The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Lansing Township.

Lansing Township on the 1954 USGS map1954Mason City sheet · 1:250,000

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

Places that used to be

Old corners and burying grounds

Old hamlets and crossroads still carry their names on the map.

Hamlets and corners on the map
AndyvilleLansing
1cemetery inside Lansing Township
Lansing

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.

Austin3 historic placesBMapleviewIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townAustin TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townMoscow TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townUdolpho TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townRed Rock TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Lansing Township’s history

What year was Lansing Township founded?

The Lansing Township post office opened in 1857, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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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 Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), 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.