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History · Nodaway Township

37% of Nodaway Township’s homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1939 on.

0on the National Register
37%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Nodaway 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 Nodaway Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Nodaway Township’s homes were built before 1958.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Nodaway Township’s history is told.

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The story

How Nodaway Township came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Nodaway Township.

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Nodaway Township was erected on March 29, 1871, from parts of Green Township and Atchison Township and named after the Nodaway River. Later, a 6-square-mile (16 km2) area was taken off the east and added to Union Township.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Nodaway Township, 1880 to 1954

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1880Post officeThe Wilcox post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1939On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  5. 1954Post officeThe Wilcox post office closes
By decade

Nodaway Township, decade by decade

Today2 recent
WorkmanUnionChapelNodawayTownshipNodCo2025WorkmanUnionChapelNodawayTownshipNodCoNodawayTownshipNodawayCouuntyMO2025NodawayTownshipNodawayCouuntyMO
On the map

Nodaway Township on the map, 1939 to 1981

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

Nodaway Township on the 1939 USGS mapNodaway Township on the 1941 USGS mapNodaway Township on the 1981 USGS map1939Skidmore 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 Nodaway Township.

Famous people

Famous people close to Nodaway Township

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

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Dale CarnegieAmerican writer and lecturer · b. 1888
Harley RaceAmerican professional wrestler, promoter and tr… · b. 1943
Sarah CaldwellAmerican opera conductor, impresario, and stage… · b. 1924
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Jay Laurence LushAmerican geneticist · b. 1896
Forrest C. DonnellAmerican politician · b. 1884
Lynne OvermanAmerican actor · b. 1887
Places that used to be

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

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

Hamlets and corners on the map
RoseberryWilcox
Gone or out of use
Gray Grove SchoolschoolGuthrie SchoolschoolLone Valley SchoolschoolMount Vernon Schoolschool
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Nodaway Township
OhioWilcox

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

Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Green TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townLincoln Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townAtchison TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townPolk Township7 historic placesB+Union 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 Wikimedia Commons (2), 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.