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History · Maplewood Township

14% of Maplewood Township’s homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1912 on and the census since 1960.

0on the National Register
14%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Maplewood 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 Maplewood Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Maplewood Township.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Maplewood Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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Places that used to be

Lost post offices, places now gone and burying grounds

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

Worden
1892–1906
Arthur
1897–1906
18901960today
Gone or out of use
Arthur Post Officepost officeSchool Number 145schoolSchool Number 156SschoolSchool Number 161schoolWorden Post Officepost office
3cemeteries and burying grounds inside Maplewood Township
Lake Lida BaptistMaplewood Lutheran ChurchScandinavian Christian Mission Church

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

The story

How Maplewood Township came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Maplewood Township.

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Before European Settlement in the 1840s, multiple indigenous peoples inhabited the area around Maplewood. The area was inhabited during the Woodland period, with Dakota tribes settling in the area in the 18th century.

The Maplewood area began being settled by Europeans in the 1850s. A stagecoach line operated from Saint Paul to Duluth from 1856 to 1870, stopping in the area.This ceased operation with the linkage of the construction of the Lake Superior and Mississippi Railroad in 1870.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Maplewood Township, 1892 to 1912

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1892Post officeThe Worden post office opens
  3. 1897Post officeThe Arthur post office opens
  4. 20th century
  5. 1906Post officeThe Worden post office closes
  6. 1906Post officeThe Arthur post office closes
  7. 1912On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Maplewood Township, decade by decade

Today6 recent
RNC 2008 Bike Cop 2820939317 o2008RNC 2008 Bike Cop 2820939317 oDonate a buck2008Donate a buckLilypads, Lake Phalen, Maplewood 7 6 072007Lilypads, Lake Phalen, Maplewood 7 6 07Cloud and Water Lily2007Cloud and Water LilyBright Water Lily2007Bright Water LilyMNMap-doton-Maplewood2005MNMap-doton-Maplewood
On the map

Maplewood Township on the map, 1912 to 1973

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

Maplewood Township on the 1912 USGS mapMaplewood Township on the 1973 USGS map1912Vergas sheet · 1:62,500

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

People over time

Maplewood Township, census by census

05,00010,00015,00020,00025,00030,00035,00040,00045,000196019802000202042,088

Grew from 18,519 people in 1960 to 42,088 in 2020.

7 censuses, 1960–2020.

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

Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Star Lake TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townErhards Grove TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townFriberg TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townLida 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 Wikimedia Commons (6), 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.