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History · Mandt Township

58% of Mandt Township’s homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1958 on.

0on the National Register
58%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Mandt 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 Mandt Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Mandt Township’s homes were built before 1938.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Mandt Township’s history is told.

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The story

How Mandt Township came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Mandt Township.

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Mandt Township was organized in 1876, and named for Engelbreth T. Mandt, a pioneer settler and at whose house the first meeting of the township was held. The original petition requested that the new township be named Moland or Mandt.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

By decade

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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

Mandt Township on the map, 1958 to 1986

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

Mandt Township on the 1958 USGS mapMandt Township on the 1986 USGS map1958Gracelock SW 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 Mandt Township.

Places that used to be

Old burying grounds

4cemeteries and burying grounds inside Mandt Township
Big Bend LutheranBig Bend Lutheran ChurchMandtOriginal Big Bend

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.

Rosewood TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townGrace TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townBig Bend TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townSwenoda 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 Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps 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.