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Sherman Township is a township in Harrison County, Missouri, United States. At the 2020 census, its population was 176. Sherman Township was created due to a county-wide November 1872 election, which would subdivide the county into 20 municipal townships corresponding with the county's 20 congressional townships.
Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 175 in 2010, 176 in 2020.
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
From the old history books
What they wrote about Sherman Township in 1921
Passages that mention Sherman Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
History of Harrison County, Missouri1921 · page 532Read the page →
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Nathan T. Slatten was educated in the public schools of Sherman Township, and in Bethany, Missouri. He farmed in Sherman Township until 1913, when he moved to the W. H. Leazenby farm, where he now
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History of Harrison County, Missouri1921 · page 421Read the page →
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S. A. Dale was reared in Sherman Township, Harrison County, and received his education in the Hickory School in Sherman Township and the Harmony School in Bethany Township. He began to farm when a young man, first renting land, and then buying 120 acres in Grant Township for which he paid $480, paying eighty dollars at the time of the purchase and the remainder with in a few years. He later sold this land and bought another farm and now owns 250 acres. He has a ten room, attractive residence with modern equipment. He also has a good barn
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Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Timeline
Sherman Township, 1892 to 1948
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Sherman Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1948Gilman 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 Sherman Township.
On the National Register
1 historic place in Sherman Township
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
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), 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.
