Guest, Sign inJoin

Post to Warsaw Township

We’ll email a one-tap link to publish your post. No password, and nothing is public until you click it.
Already a member? Sign in
–Not graded
History · Warsaw Township

20% of Warsaw Township’s homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1968 on.

0on the National Register
20%homes built before 1940
Add an old photoShare a memory

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.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Warsaw Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Warsaw Township, and 2 old place names are still on the map.
★ What stands out · Help out

Start Warsaw Township’s collection

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

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
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.

Wangs
1876–1901
Sogn
1892–1903
18701950today
Hamlets and corners on the map
SognWangs
Gone or out of use
Edberg Landing StripairportSogn Post Officepost officeWangs Post Officepost office
1cemetery inside Warsaw Township
Wangen Prairie

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

The story so far

Warsaw Township, in brief

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

Warsaw Township is a township in Goodhue County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 603 at the 2000 census. Warsaw Township was organized in 1858.

Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 607 in 2010, 598 in 2020.

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

Timeline

Warsaw Township, 1876 to 1968

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1876Post officeThe Wangs post office opens
  3. 1892Post officeThe Sogn post office opens
  4. 20th century
  5. 1901Post officeThe Wangs post office closes
  6. 1903Post officeThe Sogn post office closes
  7. 1968On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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.

Be the first to add onePhotograph a print flat, in daylight, no flash.
Add from your album
On the map

Warsaw Township on the map, 1968 to 1985

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

Warsaw Township on the 1968 USGS mapWarsaw Township on the 1985 USGS map1968Sogn 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.

See all →
Andrew VolsteadAmerican politician · b. 1859
D
David GebhardAmerican architectural historian · b. 1927
Ulysses G. McAlexanderUnited States Army general · b. 1864
F
Francis G. JudgeAmerican politician – Minnesota -House 1969-72 … · b. 1908
Jennie Lasby TessmannAmerican spectroscopist and college educator · b. 1882
S
Steven EnglerAmerican politician – Minnesota -- "Steve" Sena… · b. 1949
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

DennisonIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townStanton Township3 historic placesBHolden Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townLeon Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townNorthfield TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Warsaw Township’s history

Memory lane

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

Town Square →
Start a conversation
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 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.