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History · Amundsville Township

Amundsville Township’s post office opened in 1913, and 12% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1956 on.

1913first post office
0on the National Register
12%homes built before 1940
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How Amundsville Township began

When was Amundsville Township founded?

1913

The Amundsville Township post office opened in 1913, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Amundsville (1913), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 45113 years
Founding year: the first Amundsville Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Amundsville 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 Amundsville Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Amundsville Township’s history is told.

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The story so far

Amundsville Township, in brief

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

Its first post office opened in 1913. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 39 to 45 (+15%).

Timeline

Amundsville Township, 1913 to 1956

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

  1. 20th century
  2. 1913Post officeThe Amundsville post office opens
  3. 1916Post officeThe Amundsville post office closes
  4. 1956On 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

Amundsville Township on the map, 1956 to 1977

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

Amundsville Township on the 1956 USGS mapAmundsville Township on the 1977 USGS map1956Makoti SW sheet · 1:24,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Amundsville Township.

Places that used to be

Lost post offices, places now gone and burying grounds

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

Gone or out of use
Diffley Landing Stripairport
1cemetery inside Amundsville Township
Roseglen Baptist

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.

Gate TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townDeepwater TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townCremerville TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townMountrail TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townLoquemont TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Amundsville Township’s history

What year was Amundsville Township founded?

The Amundsville Township post office opened in 1913, 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 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.