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History · Maple Township

Half of Maple Township’s homes were built after 1998

Most of Maple Township was built recently: 5% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1998.

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5%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Maple 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 Maple Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Maple Township’s history is told.

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The story so far

Maple Township, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Maple Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Maple Township is a township in Cass County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 407 as of the 2020 census. Maple Township was named from the groves of sugar maple trees within its borders.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 377 to 407 (+8%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

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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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Famous people

Famous people close to Maple Township

Nobody well known was born in Maple Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Joshua Norman HaldemanPolitician and chiropractor · b. 1902
Terry BakerAmerican football and basketball player · b. 1941
Carl SneepIce hockey player · b. 1987
Places that used to be

Lost post offices, places now gone and burying grounds

Another post office, Stonybrook, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Gone or out of use
Stonybrook Post Officepost office
3cemeteries and burying grounds inside Maple Township
Grace LutheranLundeMayo Creek

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.

Loon Lake TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townMoose Lake TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townHome Brook TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Maple Township’s history

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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.