The Upton Township post office opened in 1907, the earliest record of the town by name. Five smaller post offices, Rousidoux (1850), Pleasantridge (1877) and Turley (1886), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
2020 census: 597119 years
Founding year: the first Upton Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).
What stands out about Upton Township’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds
Five other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.
Rousidoux
1850–1953
Pleasantridge
1877–1909
Turley
1886–1949
Embree
1888–1923
Upton
1907–1975
18501940today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Old SuccessPleasant RidgeRoubidouxSuccessTurleyUpton
Gone or out of use
Coffey SchoolschoolLong Valley SchoolschoolMill Creek SchoolschoolOakland ChurchchurchPegasus Ranch AerodromeairportPrairie Point ChurchchurchPrairie Point Schoolschool
4cemeteries and burying grounds inside Upton Township
JacksonOld ConcordOld UnionTuttle
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Help out
Start Upton Township’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Upton Township’s history is told.
Decades since 1900 with photos
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Upton Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Upton is an Unincorporated community in western Texas County, Missouri, United States. The community is located on a ridge top (elevation 1430 ft.) approximately one mile east of the West Fork Roubidoux Creek. It is located about ten miles west of Houston on Missouri Route FF. A post office called Upton was established in 1907, and remained in operation until 1975. The community has the name of Osias Upton, a pioneer citizen. However, Brigham was considered for Joseph Brigham, another pioneer of the community.
Its first post office opened in 1907. Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 592 in 2010, 597 in 2020.
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Timeline
Upton Township, 1850 to 1953
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 Upton Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1941Bado 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 Upton Township.
Famous people
Famous people close to Upton Township
Nobody well known was born in Upton Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
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 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.
