The Pomme de Terre Township post office opened in 1868, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Pomme De Terre (1868), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
2020 census: 143158 years
Founding year: the first Pomme de Terre Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓
What stands out about Pomme de Terre Township’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Pomme de Terre was the first village settled in Grant County in 1868. It was settled by Timothy Heald, Joseph Pennock and Frank Smith and platted in 1874 by Timothy Heald in section 24 of Pomme de Terre Township. The site was chosen for its location of where the stagecoach road from St. Cloud, Minnesota to Fort Abercrombie (on the Red River) crossed the Pomme de Terre River.
In 1871, N.Q. Puntches moved his general merchandise stock from the old stockade (Fort Pomme de Terre, located about 1 1/2 miles to the east) to the village. Frank Williams and August Schaeffer built a grist mill in 1873. The grist mill burned down in August 1887. At the time the mill was shipping out three carloads of flour each week.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Pomme de Terre Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1913Ashby 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 Pomme de Terre Township.
Famous people
Famous people close to Pomme de Terre Township
Nobody well known was born in Pomme de Terre Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Lost post offices, places now gone and burying grounds
Another post office, Pomme De Terre, opened and closed inside today’s town.
Gone or out of use
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3cemeteries and burying grounds inside Pomme de Terre Township
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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.
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 Wikipedia, 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.
