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History · Madison Township

43% of Madison Township’s homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the Crowder State Park Vehicle Bridge. Below: maps from 1948 on.

1on the National Register
43%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Madison 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 Madison Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Madison Township’s homes were built before 1947.Old burying grounds12 cemeteries and burying grounds inside Madison Township.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Madison Township’s history is told.

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The story so far

Madison Township, in brief

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

Madison Township is a township in Grundy County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. Madison Township was originally called Sugar Creek Township, and the latter name was established in 1837. The present name, after President James Madison, was adopted in 1839.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 626 to 586 (-6%).

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

Places that used to be

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

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

Hamlets and corners on the map
Edinburg
Gone or out of use
Antioch ChurchchurchEdinburg SchoolschoolOakland SchoolschoolRobertson SchoolschoolSmith Schoolschool
12cemeteries and burying grounds inside Madison Township
AntiochCoon CreekDoctor ThompsonEdinburg Independent Order of Odd FellowsEvans Peery FamilyGeorge PeeryMcCammonMetcalfPeery ChapelRobert PeerySarah PeeryWinn

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

Timeline

Madison Township, 1857 to 1948

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1857Post officeThe Edinburg post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1907Post officeThe Edinburg post office closes
  5. 1948On 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

Madison Township on the map, 1948 to 1984

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

Madison Township on the 1948 USGS mapMadison Township on the 1984 USGS map1948Trenton 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 Madison Township.

On the National Register

1 historic place in Madison Township

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

place listed
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National Historic Landmarks
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none yet
historic buildings protected
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each building in a district counts
first listed
1985
Crowder State Park Vehicle Bridge
Crowder State Park Vehicle Bridge
Structures
All 1 listings
Crowder State Park Vehicle BridgeStructure · listed 1985

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

Famous people

Famous people close to Madison Township

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

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Clyde TolsonAssociate director of the FBI · b. 1900
George OveyActor · b. 1870
Enoch Herbert CrowderAmerican diplomat · b. 1859
Jerry LittonAmerican politician · b. 1937
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Yank LawsonAmerican musician · b. 1911
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Imogene LynnAmerican jazz and pop singer · b. 1922
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Harrison TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townTaylor TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townJefferson TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townTrenton Township6 historic placesnot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townLincoln TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townLeisure LakeIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townJamesport TownshipIts storyC+

Questions about Madison Township’s history

What is on the National Register in Madison Township?

One place: the Crowder State Park Vehicle Bridge (listed 1985).

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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 National Register of Historic Places (1), 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.