Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
1 place in town is on the National Register. Below: maps from 1955 on and old-book passages.
The Hughes Township post office opened in 1872, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Hughes (1872), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Hughes Township’s history is told.
From Wikipedia’s history of Hughes Township.
Hughes Township was established in 1845, and named after General Andrew S. Hughes, a pioneer citizen. The township's area was reduced in 1866 when Monroe Township was formed.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention Hughes Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
spent his boyhood days and received his education in Wisconsin, and, in 1869, with his father, he moved to Nodaway County, Missouri, settling in Hughes Township. Time has proved his remarkable success ; through all the recent years of panic and financial revolutions, his comt mercial ship neither tacked to the right nor left, nor went backward, but straight on, and to-day he stands among the best business men of Hughes Township. Mr. Starks was united in marriage on the 4th day of April, 1875, to Miss Marian D. Moffitt, a native of Indiana, born February 7,
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County, locating in Hughes Township, where the elder Brown purchased a claim, and it was the first land broken in Nodaway County. Mr. Brown's father laid out Graham in 1855. He started out in life as a blacksmith, when at the age of eighteen years, working with James Black one year, and then with Isaac Clark for a like period. In 1849 he moved some five miles north of Graham and purchased a farm of 160 acres, and farmed in connection with blacksmithing. In 1850 he went to California by the way of Salt Lake, being on the road four months. He was
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyThe U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Hughes Township.
1955Nebraska City sheet · 1:250,000U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Hughes Township.
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Nobody well known was born in Hughes Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Another post office, Hughes, opened and closed inside today’s town.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The Hughes Township post office opened in 1872, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
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 Wikimedia Commons (2), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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