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History · Edna Township

Half of Edna Township’s homes were built after 1975

Most of Edna Township was built recently: 9% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1975. Below: maps from 1961 on.

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What stands out about Edna Township’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

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The story

How Edna Township came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Edna Township.

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The township is named after Edna Booth, daughter of Albert Anson Booth (1850 – 1914), a pioneer who settled in Barnes County in 1879. Booth established a rural post office out of his home on July 25, 1882. He originally planned to name it after his daughter, who was the first white child born in the township, but instead named it Booth. Service was discontinued on November 14, 1884. However, the township retains the name.

The Booth post office was located approximately 1 mile from the present city of Rogers (47°06′08″N 98°12′54″W).

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Edna Township, 1882 to 1961

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1882Post officeThe Booth post office opens
  3. 1884Post officeThe Booth post office closes
  4. 20th century
  5. 1961On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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On the map

Edna Township on the map, 1961 to 1985

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

Edna Township on the 1961 USGS mapEdna Township on the 1985 USGS map1961Leal 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 Edna Township.

Famous people

Famous people close to Edna Township

Nobody well known was born in Edna Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Lonnie LaffenAmerican politician · b. 1958
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Robert T. HuberAmerican politician · b. 1920
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Stanley N. ThorupAmerican politician – Minnesota -Senate 1971-72… · b. 1929
Places that used to be

Lost post offices, places now gone and burying grounds

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

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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.

Uxbridge TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townAnderson TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townLake Town TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townRogers TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

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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 Wikipedia, 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.