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History · Yellow Bank Township

41% of Yellow Bank Township’s homes were built before 1940

0on the National Register
41%homes built before 1940
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Where Yellow Bank Township’s name came from

How did Yellow Bank Township get its name?

Yellow Bank Township was organized in 1878, and named after the Yellow Bank River.

Name: Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places that used to be

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

Another post office, Rosen, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Hamlets and corners on the map
Rosen
Gone or out of use
Immanuel ChurchchurchRosen Post Officepost officeRosen Post Officepost officeSchool Number 27schoolSchool Number 50school
4cemeteries and burying grounds inside Yellow Bank Township
ImmanuelSaint Joseph's CatholicSalemYellow Bank

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

Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Ortonville TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townAgassiz TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townWalter TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townOdessa 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.