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History · Tumuli Township

21% of Tumuli Township’s homes were built before 1940

0on the National Register
21%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Tumuli 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 Tumuli Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Tumuli Township.
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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.

Ten Mile Lake
1871–1872
Parkdale
1877–1893
18701950today
Gone or out of use
Parkdale Post Officepost officeSchool Number 126schoolSchool Number 139schoolSchool Number 7school
3cemeteries and burying grounds inside Tumuli Township
SarpsborgTen Mile LakeZion Lutheran Church

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

The story so far

Tumuli Township, in brief

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

Tumuli Township is a township in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 407 at the 2020 census. Tumuli Township was originally called Union Township, and under the latter name was organized in 1869. The present name, from the descriptive word tumulus, was adopted in 1870.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 449 to 407 (-9%).

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

Timeline

Tumuli Township, 1871 to 1893

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1871Post officeThe Ten Mile Lake post office opens
  3. 1872Post officeThe Ten Mile Lake post office closes
  4. 1877Post officeThe Parkdale post office opens
  5. 1893Post officeThe Parkdale post office closes
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No old photos in the archives yet

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Famous people

Famous people close to Tumuli Township

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

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Frank AlbertsonAmerican character actor · b. 1909
Marcus BorgAmerican Bible scholar · b. 1942
Cliff SterrettAmerican cartoonist · b. 1883
Bill LutherAmerican politician · b. 1945
Wynn RobertsAmerican biathlete · b. 1988
Art LaskyAmerican boxer · b. 1908
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Aastad TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townSt. Olaf TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townPomme de Terre TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townDane Prairie 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.