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History · St. Mathias Township

St. Mathias Township’s post office opened in 1888

Most of St. Mathias Township was built recently: 7% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1992.

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How St. Mathias Township began

When was St. Mathias Township founded?

1888

The St. Mathias Township post office opened in 1888, the earliest record of the town by name. Two smaller post offices, Pine Grove (1885) and Saint Mathias (1888), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 606138 years
Founding year: the first St. Mathias Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about St. Mathias 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 St. Mathias Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s St. Mathias Township, and 1 old place names are still on the map.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how St. Mathias Township’s history is told.

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Places that used to be

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

Two other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.

Pine Grove
1885–1885
Saint Mathias
1888–1908
18801950today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Saint Mathias
Gone or out of use
Kohl Landing StripairportSaint Mathias Post Officepost office
3cemeteries and burying grounds inside St. Mathias Township
Pine GroveRiversideSaint Mathias

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

The story so far

St. Mathias Township, in brief

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

St. Mathias is an unincorporated community in St. Mathias Township, Crow Wing County, Minnesota, United States. It is along Crow Wing County Road 121 near Hay Creek Road and Sleepy Hollow Road. Nearby places include Fort Ripley, Brainerd, and St. Mathias Park. Hay Creek and the Nokasippi River both flow nearby.

Its first post office opened in 1888. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 622 to 606 (-3%).

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

Timeline

St. Mathias Township, 1885 to 1908

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1885Post officeThe Pine Grove post office opens
  3. 1885Post officeThe Pine Grove post office closes
  4. 1888Post officeThe Saint Mathias post office opens
  5. 20th century
  6. 1908Post officeThe Saint Mathias post office closes
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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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Famous people

Famous people close to St. Mathias Township

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

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Brian KobilkaAmerican physiologist · b. 1955
Louise ErdrichAmerican-Ojibwe poet, novelist, and children's … · b. 1954
Rick NolanAmerican politician · b. 1943
C. Elmer AndersonAmerican politician · b. 1912
Duane BobickAmerican boxer · b. 1950
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Jim LangerAmerican football player · b. 1948
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Crow Wing TownshipIts storyC−Ripley TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townFort Ripley TownshipIts storyDDaggett Brook TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about St. Mathias Township’s history

What year was St. Mathias Township founded?

The St. Mathias Township post office opened in 1888, 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 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.