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History · Popple Township

Popple Township’s post office opened in 1890, and 11% of its homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the Gran Evangelical Lutheran Church. Below: maps from 1969 on.

1890first post office
1on the National Register
11%homes built before 1940
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How Popple Township began

When was Popple Township founded?

1890

The Popple Township post office opened in 1890, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Popple (1890), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 535136 years
Founding year: the first Popple Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Popple Township’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

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The story so far

Popple Township, in brief

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

Popple Township is a township in Clearwater County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 535 at the 2020 census. Popple Township was named after the poplar tree.

Its first post office opened in 1890. Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 526 in 2010, 535 in 2020.

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

Timeline

Popple Township, 1890 to 1969

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1890Post officeThe Popple post office opens
  3. 1898Post officeThe Popple post office closes
  4. 20th century
  5. 1969On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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On the map

Popple Township on the map, 1969 to 1985

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

Popple Township on the 1969 USGS mapPopple Township on the 1985 USGS map1969Bagley sheet · 1:24,000

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

On the National Register

1 historic place in Popple Township

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

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1988
Gran Evangelical Lutheran Church
Gran Evangelical Lutheran Church
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Gran Evangelical Lutheran ChurchBuilding

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

Famous people

Famous people close to Popple Township

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

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Arnie JohnsonNational Basketball League player · b. 1920
Lily HansonAmerican comedian · b. 1983
Wes WestrumAmerican baseball player and coach · b. 1922
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Steve KnutsonAmerican football player · b. 1951
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Ed WidsethAmerican football player · b. 1910
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Shirley WinsleyAmerican politician · b. 1934
Places that used to be

Lost post offices and burying grounds

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

3cemeteries and burying grounds inside Popple Township
GranOur Savior'sSaint Peter

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.

Eddy TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townColumbia TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townCopley TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townFalk TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townEbroIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townIsland Lake TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Popple Township’s history

What year was Popple Township founded?

The Popple Township post office opened in 1890, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Popple Township?

One place: the Gran Evangelical Lutheran Church (listed 1988).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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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 Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (1), 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.