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History · Brookbank Township

Brookbank Township’s post office opened in 1907

Below: maps from 1953 on.

1907first post office
0on the National Register
0.0%homes built before 1940
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How Brookbank Township began

When was Brookbank Township founded?

1907

The Brookbank Township post office opened in 1907, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Brookbank (1907), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 17119 years
Founding year: the first Brookbank Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Brookbank 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 Brookbank 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 Brookbank Township’s history is told.

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The story so far

Brookbank Township, in brief

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

Its first post office opened in 1907. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 34 to 17 (-50%).

Timeline

Brookbank Township, 1907 to 1953

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

  1. 20th century
  2. 1907Post officeThe Brookbank post office opens
  3. 1916Post officeThe Brookbank post office closes
  4. 1953On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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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

Brookbank Township on the map, 1953 to 1974

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

Brookbank Township on the 1953 USGS mapBrookbank Township on the 1974 USGS map1953Williston sheet · 1:250,000

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

Places that used to be

Lost post offices

Another post office, Brookbank, 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).

Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Alger TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townRat Lake TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townSikes TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townKnife River TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Brookbank Township’s history

What year was Brookbank Township founded?

The Brookbank Township post office opened in 1907, 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 and the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.