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History · St. Vincent Township

31% of St. Vincent Township’s homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the U.S. Inspection Station-Noyes, Minnesota. Its Register listing is the U.S. Inspection Station-Noyes, Minnesota. Below: maps from 1979 on and the census since 1900.

1on the National Register
31%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about St. Vincent 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. Vincent Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Boom and bustPeaked at 343 in 1920; 57 people lived here in 2020.Old housesHalf of St. Vincent Township’s homes were built before 1955.
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People over time

St. Vincent Township, census by census

01002003001900192019401960198020002020Peak: 343

Peaked at 343 in 1920; 57 people lived here in 2020.

13 censuses, 1900–2020.

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

The story

How St. Vincent Township came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of St. Vincent Township.

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St. Vincent, which is directly across the Red River from Pembina, was initially incorporated in 1857, just prior to statehood. Many of the earliest settlers to what would become Pembina and St. Vincent were Métis, going back to the late 18th century. In 1878, the St. Paul & Pacific Railroad line reached St. Vincent and opened the area to settlement. With the railroad coming through, other settlers began arriving to stake their claims.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

St. Vincent Township, 1920 to 1979

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

  1. 20th century
  2. 1920CensusPopulation peaks at 343
  3. 1927Post officeThe Noyes post office opens
  4. 1979On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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On the map

St. Vincent Township on the map, 1979 to 1985

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

St. Vincent Township on the 1979 USGS mapSt. Vincent Township on the 1985 USGS map1979Pembina 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 St. Vincent Township.

On the National Register

1 historic place in St. Vincent Township

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

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U.S. Inspection Station-Noyes, Minnesota
U.S. Inspection Station-Noyes, Minnesota
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U.S. Inspection Station-Noyes, MinnesotaPlace · listed 2014

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

Places that used to be

Old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

Old hamlets and crossroads still carry their names on the map.

Hamlets and corners on the map
NoyesSaint Vincent JunctionSultan
Gone or out of use
Joe River SchoolschoolSaint Vincent Rural Schoolschool
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside St. Vincent Township
HumboldtJoe River

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.

Clow TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townHill TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townSt. VincentIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about St. Vincent Township’s history

What is on the National Register in St. Vincent Township?

One place: the U.S. Inspection Station-Noyes, Minnesota (listed 2014).

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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 National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikipedia, 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.