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History · Jackson Township

17% of Jackson Township’s homes were built before 1940

Below: 2 old photos and papers and maps from 1921 on.

0on the National Register
17%homes built before 1940
2old photos & papers
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From Jackson Township’s archive · credits on each photo

What stands out about Jackson Township’s past

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

Lost villages5 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Jackson Township, and 3 old place names are still on the map.A history waiting to be writtenOnly 2 old photos are in the public archives. 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

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

Spring Hill
1849–1901
Muddy Lane
1868–1901
Cisco
1888–1901
Geneva
1891–1901
Silverleaf
1898–1901
18401930today
Hamlets and corners on the map
GenovaSilverleafSpringhill
Gone or out of use
Blackburn SchoolschoolCiscolocaleHosman SchoolschoolMuddy LanelocaleProthero SchoolschoolWare Schoolschool
7cemeteries and burying grounds inside Jackson Township
CoyDavisDockeryHutchinsonKennedyLilly GroveRosson

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

Help out

Start Jackson Township’s collection

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

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Date a photo2 archive items have no date. Guess the decade.+2Retake an old viewKoehler House: stand where they stood+15Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
The story so far

Jackson Township, in brief

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

Jackson Township is a township in Livingston County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. Jackson Township has the name of Andrew Jackson.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 543 to 531 (-2%).

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

Timeline

Jackson Township, 1849 to 1921

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1849Post officeThe Spring Hill post office opens
  3. 1868Post officeThe Muddy Lane post office opens
  4. 1888Post officeThe Cisco post office opens
  5. 20th century
  6. 1901Post officeThe Spring Hill post office closes
  7. 1901Post officeThe Muddy Lane post office closes
  8. 1901Post officeThe Cisco post office closes
  9. 1921On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Jackson Township, decade by decade

Date unknown2 to date
Koehler HouseDate?Koehler HouseBodenstein HouseDate?Bodenstein House
On the map

Jackson Township on the map, 1921 to 1984

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

Jackson Township on the 1921 USGS mapJackson Township on the 1984 USGS map1921Chillicothe 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 Jackson Township.

Then & now

Stand where they stood

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.

Koehler House
Retake this viewKoehler House

Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Jackson Township’s page.

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Famous people

Famous people close to Jackson Township

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

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Martha ScottAmerican actress · b. 1912
Clyde TolsonAssociate director of the FBI · b. 1900
Courtney W. CampbellAmerican politician · b. 1895
Enoch Herbert CrowderAmerican diplomat · b. 1859
Jerry LittonAmerican politician · b. 1937
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Shirley Collie NelsonAmerican singer/songwriter · b. 1931
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Chillicothe Township4 historic placesnot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townCream Ridge TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townGreen TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townSampsel TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townJefferson TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townUticaIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Jackson Township’s history

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Sources

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 Library of Congress (2), 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.