Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Its Register listing is the Svenska Mission Kyrka i Sodre Maple Ridge. Below: maps from 1961 on and the census since 1870.
The Maple Ridge Township post office opened in 1869, the earliest record of the town by name. Three smaller post offices, Maple Ridge (1869), Day (1896) and Elmpark (1900), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Maple Ridge Township’s history is told.
Three other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Peaked at 1,015 in 1900; 761 people lived here in 2010.
15 censuses, 1870–2010.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Maple Ridge Township’s Wikipedia page.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Maple Ridge Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Maple Ridge Township is a township in Isanti County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 737 at the 2000 census.
Its first post office opened in 1869. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 761 to 715 (-6%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
BuiltSvenska Mission Kyrka i Sodre Maple Ridge is built
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Maple Ridge Township.
1961Springvale sheet · 1:24,000U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Maple Ridge Township.
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Nobody well known was born in Maple Ridge Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The Maple Ridge Township post office opened in 1869, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
One place: the Svenska Mission Kyrka i Sodre Maple Ridge (listed 1980).
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
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 Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (1), 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.
