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History · Dundee Township

Dundee Township’s post office opened in 1881, and 38% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1952 on.

1881first post office
0on the National Register
38%homes built before 1940
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How Dundee Township began

When was Dundee Township founded?

1881

The Dundee Township post office opened in 1881, the earliest record of the town by name. Two smaller post offices, Mount View (1880) and Dundee (1881), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 100145 years
Founding year: the first Dundee Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Dundee 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 Dundee Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Dundee Township.Old housesHalf of Dundee Township’s homes were built before 1955.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Dundee Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
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Places that used to be

Lost post offices, places now gone and burying grounds

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

Mount View
1880–1884
Dundee
1881–1902
18801950today
Gone or out of use
DundeelocaleMount Viewlocale
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Dundee Township
HvidesoPark Center Lutheran

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

The story so far

Dundee Township, in brief

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

Dundee Township is a township in Walsh County, North Dakota, United States. 57.9% (62) of the population are male, and the other 42.1% (45) are female.

Its first post office opened in 1881. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 90 to 100 (+11%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline

Dundee Township, 1880 to 1952

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1880Post officeThe Mount View post office opens
  3. 1881Post officeThe Dundee post office opens
  4. 1884Post officeThe Mount View post office closes
  5. 20th century
  6. 1902Post officeThe Dundee post office closes
  7. 1952On 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

Dundee Township on the map, 1952 to 1967

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

Dundee Township on the 1952 USGS mapDundee Township on the 1967 USGS map1952Thief River Falls 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 Dundee Township.

Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Lampton TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townKensington TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townGlenwood Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townCrystal TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townGolden TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Dundee Township’s history

What year was Dundee Township founded?

The Dundee Township post office opened in 1881, 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.