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History · Queen Township

Queen Township’s post office opened in 1899, and 19% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1919 on.

1899first post office
0on the National Register
19%homes built before 1940
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How Queen Township began

When was Queen Township founded?

1899

The Queen Township post office opened in 1899, the earliest record of the town by name. Two smaller post offices, Queen (1899) and Theodore (1903), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 219127 years
Founding year: the first Queen Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Queen 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 Queen Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Queen Township.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Queen 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.

Queen
1899–1910
Theodore
1903–1917
18901960today
Gone or out of use
Queen Post Officepost officeTheodore Post Officepost office
5cemeteries and burying grounds inside Queen Township
Bethlehem Lutheran ChurchCross LakeCross LakeQueenQueen Township

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

The story so far

Queen Township, in brief

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

Queen Township is a township in Polk County, Minnesota, United States. It is part of the Grand Forks-ND-MN Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 198 at the 2000 census. Queen Township was named in complement to nearby King Township.

Its first post office opened in 1899. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 214 to 219 (+2%).

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

Timeline

Queen Township, 1899 to 1919

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1899Post officeThe Queen post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1903Post officeThe Theodore post office opens
  5. 1910Post officeThe Queen post office closes
  6. 1917Post officeThe Theodore post office closes
  7. 1919On 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

Queen Township on the map, 1919 to 1985

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

Queen Township on the 1919 USGS mapQueen Township on the 1985 USGS map1919Fosston 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 Queen Township.

Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Brandsvold TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townColumbia TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townEddy TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townEden TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Queen Township’s history

What year was Queen Township founded?

The Queen Township post office opened in 1899, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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 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.