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History · Sundal Township

23% of Sundal Township’s homes were built before 1940

0on the National Register
23%homes built before 1940
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Where Sundal Township’s name came from

How did Sundal Township get its name?

Sundal Township was organized in 1880, and named after Sundal, in Norway.

Name: Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
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.

Sundahl
1882–1905
Flaming
1902–1919
18801950today
Hamlets and corners on the map
FlamingSundalWest Side Mobile Home Park
Gone or out of use
Flaming Post Officepost officeFlaming StationlocaleSundahl Post Officepost office
4cemeteries and burying grounds inside Sundal Township
International Order of Good TemplarsOld SundalSaint JohnsSundal Lutheran

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.

Garfield TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townBear Park TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townStrand TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townSpring Creek TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

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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.