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History · New Maine Township

13% of New Maine Township’s homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1957 on.

0on the National Register
13%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about New Maine 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 New Maine Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s New Maine Township.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how New Maine 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.

Opdahl
1900–1914
Loveid
1901–1905
19001960today
Gone or out of use
Loveid Post Officepost officeOpdahl Post Officepost office
1cemetery inside New Maine Township
Opdahl

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

The story so far

New Maine Township, in brief

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

New Maine Township is a township in Marshall County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 194 at the 2000 census. New Maine Township was organized in 1900, and named after Maine, the native home of a share of a large share of the early settlers.

Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 199 in 2010, 200 in 2020.

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

Timeline

New Maine Township, 1900 to 1957

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

  1. 20th century
  2. 1900Post officeThe Opdahl post office opens
  3. 1901Post officeThe Loveid post office opens
  4. 1905Post officeThe Loveid post office closes
  5. 1914Post officeThe Opdahl post office closes
  6. 1957On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

No old photos in the archives yet

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

New Maine Township on the map, 1957 to 1982

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

New Maine Township on the 1957 USGS mapNew Maine Township on the 1982 USGS map1957Newfolden 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 New Maine Township.

Stories next door

History across the town line

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

New Folden TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townSpruce Valley TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townEast Park TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townWest Valley 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 U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, 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.