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History · Mission Township

Mission Township’s post office opened in 1901

Most of Mission Township was built recently: 3% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1991.

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How Mission Township began

When was Mission Township founded?

1901

The Mission Township post office opened in 1901, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Mission (1901), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 796125 years
Founding year: the first Mission Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Mission 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 Mission 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 Mission Township’s history is told.

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The story so far

Mission Township, in brief

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

Mission is an unincorporated community in Mission Township, Crow Wing County, Minnesota, United States, near Crosby and Merrifield. It is along Crow Wing County Road 11 near Mission Way.

Its first post office opened in 1901. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 817 to 796 (-3%).

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

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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Famous people

Famous people close to Mission Township

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

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Joshua Norman HaldemanPolitician and chiropractor · b. 1902
Thomas W. Simons, Jr.American diplomat · b. 1938
Carl SneepIce hockey player · b. 1987
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Brittany ChambersAmerican basketball player · b. 1991
Nick AndersonAmerican baseball Player · b. 1990
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Robert A. GoodAmerican physician · b. 1922
Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

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

Hamlets and corners on the map
Mission
Gone or out of use
Mission Post Officepost office
1cemetery inside Mission Township
Mission

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.

Wolford Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townCenter TownshipIts storyDPerry Lake TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townPelican TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townBreezy Point1 historic placeC−CrosslakeIts storyC−

Questions about Mission Township’s history

What year was Mission Township founded?

The Mission Township post office opened in 1901, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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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.