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History · Banner Township

Banner Township’s post office opened in 1899

Below: maps from 1971 on.

1899first post office
0on the National Register
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How Banner Township began

When was Banner Township founded?

1899

The Banner Township post office opened in 1899, the earliest record of the town by name. Two smaller post offices, Banner (1899) and Weaver (1902), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 17127 years
Founding year: the first Banner Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

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

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Places that used to be

Lost post offices and old corners

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

Banner
1899–1903
Weaver
1902–1953
18901960today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Weaver

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

The story so far

Banner Township, in brief

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

Its first post office opened in 1899. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 29 to 17 (-41%).

Timeline

Banner Township, 1899 to 1971

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1899Post officeThe Banner post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1902Post officeThe Weaver post office opens
  5. 1903Post officeThe Banner post office closes
  6. 1953Post officeThe Weaver post office closes
  7. 1971On 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

Banner Township on the map, 1971 to 1985

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

Banner Township on the 1971 USGS mapBanner Township on the 1985 USGS map1971Munich SE 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 Banner Township.

Stories next door

History across the town line

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

AlsenIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townStorlie TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townHenderson TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townRoyal TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townSeivert TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Banner Township’s history

What year was Banner Township founded?

The Banner Township post office opened in 1899, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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 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.