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History · Quiring Township

Quiring Township’s post office opened in 1900, and 12% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1919 on and the census since 1900.

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How Quiring Township began

When was Quiring Township founded?

1900

The Quiring Township post office opened in 1900, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Quiring (1900), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

First census: 17 in 19002020 census: 79126 years
Founding year: the first Quiring Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Quiring 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 Quiring Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Boom and bustPeaked at 161 in 1910; 79 people lived here in 2020.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Quiring Township’s history is told.

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People over time

Quiring Township, census by census

01001900192019401960198020002020Peak: 161

Peaked at 161 in 1910; 79 people lived here in 2020.

13 censuses, 1900–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Quiring Township’s Wikipedia page.

The story so far

Quiring Township, in brief

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

Quiring Township is a township in Beltrami County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 79 as of the 2020 census.

Its first post office opened in 1900. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 70 to 79 (+13%).

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

Timeline

Quiring Township, 1900 to 1936

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

  1. 20th century
  2. 1900Post officeThe Quiring post office opens
  3. 1910CensusPopulation peaks at 161
  4. 1919On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  5. 1936Post officeThe Quiring post office closes
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

Quiring Township on the map, 1919 to 1972

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

Quiring Township on the 1919 USGS mapQuiring Township on the 1972 USGS map1919Quiring 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 Quiring Township.

Places that used to be

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

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

Hamlets and corners on the map
Quiring
Gone or out of use
Quiring Post Officepost office
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Quiring Township
CapernaumQuiring Township

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.

Cormant TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townO'Brien TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townBattle TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townWoodrow Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Quiring Township’s history

What year was Quiring Township founded?

The Quiring Township post office opened in 1900, 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 U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), 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.