Founding year: the first Warsaw Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).
History grade
What drives Warsaw Township’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Warsaw Township is more historic than 42% of U.S. towns. Its share of homes from before 1940 holds the grade up; its National Register listings pull it down.
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HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Warsaw Township’s overall grade.
Minnesota towns list about as much on the Register as the country (a typical Minnesota town has 2.1 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Warsaw Township’s 0.0 sits below most of its state (23% of Minnesota towns have fewer) while its 0 listings outnumber those of 23% of U.S. towns.
How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from C− to B−. The pre-1940 share is a Census survey estimate (±7.4 points). The founding year is the first post office, not a stated founding date.
Founding year: the first post office (other dates in Quick answers). Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →
What stands out about Warsaw Township’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Warsaw Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Warsaw is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Warsaw Township, Rice County, Minnesota, United States. As of the 2020 census, Warsaw had a population of 644. The community is located east of Morristown and west of Faribault. Warsaw is located at the junction of State Highway 60 (MN 60) and Rice County Road 13 (Farwell Avenue) on the west side of Cannon Lake.
Its first post office opened in 1858. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 1,320 to 1,276 (-3%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Warsaw Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1962Medford West 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 Warsaw Township.
Famous people
Famous people close to Warsaw Township
Nobody well known was born in Warsaw Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
The Warsaw Township post office opened in 1858, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
How does Warsaw Township rank for history?
Warsaw Township is more historic than 42% of U.S. towns. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.
How old are the homes in Warsaw Township?
22% of Warsaw Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±7.4 points), against a typical 8.1% for a Minnesota town; the median home was built in 1974.
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).
From Wikimedia Commons (2), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, 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.
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