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History · Grantsville Township

Grantsville Township’s post office opened in 1868, and 18% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1946 on.

1868first post office
0on the National Register
18%homes built before 1940
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How Grantsville Township began

When was Grantsville Township founded?

1868

The Grantsville Township post office opened in 1868, the earliest record of the town by name. Four smaller post offices, Grantsville (1868), Bear Branch (1871) and Shelby (1882), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 249158 years
Founding year: the first Grantsville Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Grantsville Township’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

Lost villages4 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Grantsville Township, and 4 old place names are still on the map.A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Grantsville Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
★ What stands out · Places that used to be

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

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

Grantsville
1868–1884
Bear Branch
1871–1887
Shelby
1882–1904
Leverton
1883–1901
18601940today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Bear BranchGrantsvilleLevertonShelby
Gone or out of use
Grantsville SchoolschoolGreenview SchoolschoolGrove Hill ChurchchurchGrove Hill SchoolschoolWillowvale SchoolschoolWoodside Schoolschool
1cemetery inside Grantsville Township
Grantsville

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

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Start Grantsville Township’s collection

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

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The story

How Grantsville Township came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Grantsville Township.

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A post office called Grantsville was established in 1868, which remained in operation until 1884. The community was named after Ulysses S. Grant, an officer in the Civil War and afterward 18th President of the United States.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Grantsville Township, 1868 to 1946

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1868Post officeThe Grantsville post office opens
  3. 1871Post officeThe Bear Branch post office opens
  4. 1882Post officeThe Shelby post office opens
  5. 1884Post officeThe Grantsville post office closes
  6. 1887Post officeThe Bear Branch post office closes
  7. 20th century
  8. 1904Post officeThe Shelby post office closes
  9. 1946On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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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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On the map

Grantsville Township on the map, 1946 to 1984

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

Grantsville Township on the 1946 USGS mapGrantsville Township on the 1984 USGS map1946Brookfield 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 Grantsville Township.

Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Baker TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townLocust Creek Township2 historic placesnot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townBenton TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townEnterprise TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townNorth Salem TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townYellow Creek TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Grantsville Township’s history

What year was Grantsville Township founded?

The Grantsville Township post office opened in 1868, 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 Wikipedia, 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.