Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: maps from 1927 on and old-book passages.
The White Cloud Township post office opened in 1856, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, White Cloud (1856), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how White Cloud Township’s history is told.
From Wikipedia’s history of White Cloud Township.
White Cloud Township was erected in 1845, taking its name from White Cloud Creek. In the early 1870s part of this township was split off to help create Grant Township.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention White Cloud Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
The first regular services of this church in Nodaway County were held by the Rev. George Turner, now of Hiawatha, Kansas, in the Davis school house, in White Cloud Township, in 1864. Rev. Mr. Turner preached once a month at this place for some time. In the summer of 1872, the Rev S. C. Blackiston, now of Fort Benton, Montana, was appointed missionary of the church for Northwest Missouri. On the 18th day of August, 1872, he held service in Union Hall, Maryville, and on the following day organized the Mission at the
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
The first settler in White Cloud Township was Hiram Hall, who came in 1840, and settled one and one-fourth miles southeast of the present site of Arkoe. He entered a claim, and cultivated his farm for several years, but sold out about the year i860, and moved to Kansas.
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of White Cloud Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of White Cloud Township.
Nobody well known was born in White Cloud Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Another post office, White Cloud, opened and closed inside today’s town.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The White Cloud Township post office opened in 1856, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
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, 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.
