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History · Leon Township

24% of Leon Township’s homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the Miller, John, Farmhouse. Below: maps from 1968 on.

1on the National Register
24%homes built before 1940
1famous people
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What stands out about Leon 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 Leon Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages3 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Leon Township, and 1 old place names are still on the map.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Leon Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
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

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

Wastedo
1857–1903
Eidswold
1875–1888
Aurland
1898–1898
18501940today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Wastedo
Gone or out of use
Wastedo Post Officepost office
4cemeteries and burying grounds inside Leon Township
EidsvoldOldSpring GardenUrland

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

The story

How Leon Township came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Leon Township.

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Leon Township was organized in 1858, and was probably named after the Kingdom of León.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Leon Township, 1857 to 1968

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1857Post officeThe Wastedo post office opens
  3. 1875Post officeThe Eidswold post office opens
  4. 1876Born hereOliver J. Lee is born here
  5. 1888Post officeThe Eidswold post office closes
  6. 1898Post officeThe Aurland post office opens
  7. 1898Post officeThe Aurland post office closes
  8. 20th century
  9. 1903Post officeThe Wastedo post office closes
  10. 1968On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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

Leon Township on the map, 1968 to 1982

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Leon Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Leon Township on the 1968 USGS mapLeon Township on the 1982 USGS map1968White Rock sheet · 1:24,000

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

On the National Register

1 historic place in Leon Township

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
1
each building in a district counts
first listed
1980
Miller, John, Farmhouse
Miller, John, Farmhouse
Buildings
Miller, John, FarmhouseBuilding

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Belle Creek TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townCannon Falls TownshipIts storyC+Warsaw TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townWanamingo Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Leon Township’s history

What is on the National Register in Leon Township?

One place: the Miller, John, Farmhouse (listed 1980).

Memory lane

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

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Sources

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 National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, 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.