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History · Warren Township

Warren Township’s post office opened in 1856, and 31% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: 1 old photo or paper, maps from 1954 on, and the census since 1880.

1856first post office
0on the National Register
31%homes built before 1940
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Quick answers

How Warren Township began

When was Warren Township founded?

1856

The Warren Township post office opened in 1856, the earliest record of the town by name. Three smaller post offices, Warren (1856), Frank Hill (1858) and Wyattville (1858), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

First census: 108 in 18802020 census: 586170 years
Founding year: the first Warren Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Warren 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 writtenOnly 1 old photo is in the public archives. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages3 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Warren Township, and 1 old place names are still on the map.
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Start Warren Township’s collection

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

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
1 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Retake an old viewAndrew Winberg with brothers and sister…: stand where they stood+15Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
Places that used to be

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

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

Warren
1856–1861
Frank Hill
1858–1893
Wyattville
1858–1902
18501940today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Wyattville
Gone or out of use
Wyattville Post Officepost office
4cemeteries and burying grounds inside Warren Township
BrethrenFrank HillMecklenburgWarren

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

The story

How Warren Township came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Warren Township.

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Warren was platted in 1879, and named for Charles H. Warren, a railroad official. A post office has been in operation at Warren since 1880.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Warren Township, 1856 to 1954

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1856Post officeThe Warren post office opens
  3. 1858Post officeThe Frank Hill post office opens
  4. 1858Post officeThe Wyattville post office opens
  5. 1861Post officeThe Warren post office closes
  6. 1893Post officeThe Frank Hill post office closes
  7. 20th century
  8. 1902Post officeThe Wyattville post office closes
  9. 1903In the archiveAndrew Winberg with brothers and sisters in Warren, Minnesota, ca. 1903
  10. 1954On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Warren Township, decade by decade

One decade in the archive so far: the 1900s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.

1900s1 item
Andrew Winberg with brothers and sisters in Warren, Minnesota, ca. 1903c. 1903Andrew Winberg with brothers and sisters in Warren, M…
1910s–1990snothing yet
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Add from your album
Today5 recent
Warren, Minnesota-042001Warren, Minnesota-04Warren, Minnesota-032001Warren, Minnesota-03Warren, Minnesota-022001Warren, Minnesota-02Warren, Minnesota-012001Warren, Minnesota-01Electrical Substation2001Electrical Substation
On the map

Warren Township on the map, 1954 to 1974

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

Warren Township on the 1954 USGS mapWarren Township on the 1974 USGS map1954Lewiston sheet · 1:62,500

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Warren Township.

Then & now

Stand where they stood

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.

Andrew Winberg with brothers and sisters in Warren, Minnesota, ca. 1903
Retake this viewAndrew Winberg with brothers and sisters in Warren, Minnesota, ca. 1903, c. 1903

Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Warren Township’s page.

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People over time

Warren Township, census by census

05001,0001,5002,00018801900192019401960198020002020Peak: 2,105

Between 108 and 2,105 people in every census since 1880.

15 censuses, 1880–2020.

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

Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Hillsdale Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townUtica TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townWilson TownshipIts storyC+Hart TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townStockton1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Warren Township’s history

What year was Warren Township founded?

The Warren Township post office opened in 1856, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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 Wikimedia Commons (6), 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.