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History · Bogard Township

Bogard Township’s post office opened in 1871, and 10% of its homes were built before 1940

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How Bogard Township began

When was Bogard Township founded?

1871

The Bogard Township post office opened in 1871, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Bogard (1871), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 672155 years
Founding year: the first Bogard Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Bogard 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 Bogard Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The story so far

Bogard Township, in brief

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

Bogard Township is a township in Henry County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. Bogard Township was established in 1857, taking its name from a creek of the same name.

Its first post office opened in 1871. Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 663 in 2010, 672 in 2020.

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

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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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Places that used to be

Lost post offices, places now gone and burying grounds

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

Gone or out of use
Bee Branch SchoolschoolBrushy ChurchchurchBrushy SchoolschoolBunker Hill SchoolschoolEnterprise SchoolschoolOak Grove Schoolschool
4cemeteries and burying grounds inside Bogard Township
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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.

White Oak TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townBig Creek TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Bogard Township’s history

What year was Bogard Township founded?

The Bogard Township post office opened in 1871, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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

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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.