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History · Wacouta Township

14% of Wacouta Township’s homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the Dammon Round Barn.

1on the National Register
14%homes built before 1940

What stands out about Wacouta Township’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

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Start Wacouta Township’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Wacouta Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners and burying grounds

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

Wacoota
1854–1869
Waconta
1874–1904
18501940today
Hamlets and corners on the map
WacoutaWacouta Beach
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Wacouta Township
WacoutaWacouta

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

The story so far

Wacouta Township, in brief

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

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 386 to 377 (-2%).

Timeline

Wacouta Township, 1854 to 1904

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1854Post officeThe Wacoota post office opens
  3. 1869Post officeThe Wacoota post office closes
  4. 1874Post officeThe Waconta post office opens
  5. 20th century
  6. 1904Post officeThe Waconta 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 National Register

1 historic place in Wacouta Township

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

place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
1
each building in a district counts
first listed
1980
Dammon Round Barn

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

Famous people

Famous people close to Wacouta Township

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

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Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Questions about Wacouta Township’s history

What is on the National Register in Wacouta Township?

One place: the Dammon Round Barn (listed 1980).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Sources

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), 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.