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History · Wheeling Township

Wheeling Township’s post office opened in 1866

Most of Wheeling Township was built recently: 3% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1966.

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How Wheeling Township began

When was Wheeling Township founded?

1866

The Wheeling Township post office opened in 1866, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Leopolis (1892), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 361160 years
Founding year: the first Wheeling Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Wheeling Township’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

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The story

How Wheeling Township came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Wheeling Township.

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Wheeling was laid out in 1865, and named after Wheeling, West Virginia, the native home of a first settler. A post office called Wheeling has been in operation since 1866.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners and places now gone

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

Hamlets and corners on the map
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Gone or out of use
Prairie Valley Schoolschool

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.

Parson Creek TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townRich Hill TownshipIts storyCGrand River TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townChillicothe Township4 historic placesnot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townMedicine TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townClay TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Wheeling Township’s history

What year was Wheeling Township founded?

The Wheeling Township post office opened in 1866, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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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 Wikipedia, 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.