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History · Hill Township

Half of Hill Township’s homes were built after 1976

Most of Hill Township was built recently: 9% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1976. Below: maps from 1924 on.

0on the National Register
9%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Hill 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 Hill Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Hill Township, and 2 old place names are still on the map.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Hill Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
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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.

Latoh
1886–1903
Fisher
1896–1904
18801950today
Hamlets and corners on the map
FisherLatoh
Gone or out of use
Cream Ridge SchoolschoolGreenwood SchoolschoolGreenwood SchoolschoolLocust SchoolschoolOak Hill SchoolschoolWooden Schoolschool
3cemeteries and burying grounds inside Hill Township
BradenHillSalem

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

The story so far

Hill Township, in brief

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

Hill Township is a township in Carroll County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. The population was 188 at the 2020 census. Hill Township has the name of the local Hill family of pioneer citizens.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 235 to 188 (-20%).

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

Timeline

Hill Township, 1886 to 1924

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1886Post officeThe Latoh post office opens
  3. 1896Post officeThe Fisher post office opens
  4. 20th century
  5. 1903Post officeThe Latoh post office closes
  6. 1904Post officeThe Fisher post office closes
  7. 1924On 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.

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On the map

Hill Township on the map, 1924 to 1950

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

Hill Township on the 1924 USGS mapHill Township on the 1950 USGS map1924Dawn 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 Hill Township.

Famous people

Famous people close to Hill Township

Nobody well known was born in Hill Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Paul Carpenter StandleyAmerican botanist · b. 1884
Barbara SinatraAmerican model, showgirl, and socialite; wife o… · b. 1927
Robert SimpsonAmerican hurdler and track and field coach · b. 1892
James KirkpatrickAmerican politician from Missouri · b. 1905
Harold W. StokeAmerican academic · b. 1903
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John JenkinsAmerican baseball player, born 1896 · b. 1896
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Leslie TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townWashington TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townBlue Mound TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townStokes Mound 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 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.