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History · Sherman Township

42% of Sherman Township’s homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the Dalton-Uphoff House. Below: maps from 1923 on.

1on the National Register
42%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Sherman 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 Sherman Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Sherman Township, and 2 old place names are still on the map.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Sherman Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
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Places that used to be

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

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

Boxford
1854–1902
Oak
1894–1906
18501940today
Hamlets and corners on the map
BoxfordOak
Gone or out of use
Carrol SchoolschoolGlenwood SchoolschoolKetchem SchoolschoolMcCartney SchoolschoolOgle SchoolschoolSharp SchoolschoolUnion Chapel Schoolschool
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Sherman Township
SharpUnion Chapel

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

The story so far

Sherman Township, in brief

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

Sherman Township is a township in DeKalb County, Missouri, United States. At the 2020 census, its population was 491. Sherman Township was established in 1870, taking its name from William Tecumseh Sherman, an officer in the Civil War.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 550 to 491 (-11%).

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

Timeline

Sherman Township, 1854 to 1923

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1854Post officeThe Boxford post office opens
  3. 1894Post officeThe Oak post office opens
  4. 20th century
  5. 1902Post officeThe Boxford post office closes
  6. 1906Post officeThe Oak post office closes
  7. 1923On 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

Sherman Township on the map, 1923 to 1983

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

Sherman Township on the 1923 USGS mapSherman Township on the 1983 USGS map1923Clarksdale 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.

place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
1
each building in a district counts
first listed
1982
Dalton-Uphoff House
Dalton-Uphoff House
Buildings
All 1 listings
Dalton-Uphoff HouseBuilding · listed 1982

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

Famous people

Famous people close to Sherman Township

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

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EminemAmerican rapper, record producer and actor · b. 1972
Jane WymanAmerican actress · b. 1917
Walter CronkiteAmerican broadcast journalist · b. 1916
Coleman HawkinsAmerican jazz saxophonist · b. 1904
Jim WebbAmerican politician, military officer and author · b. 1946
Betty GarrettAmerican actress, comedian, singer, and dancer · b. 1919
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Camden Township1 historic placeB+Polk TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townWashington TownshipIts storyB−

Questions about Sherman Township’s history

What is on the National Register in Sherman Township?

One place: the Dalton-Uphoff House (listed 1982).

Memory lane

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.