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History · Farmington Township

23% of Farmington Township’s homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1952 on.

0on the National Register
23%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Farmington 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 Farmington Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Farmington Township, and 2 old place names are still on the map.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Farmington Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners and burying grounds

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

Auburn
1883–1943
Nash
1891–1989
18801950today
Hamlets and corners on the map
AuburnNash
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Farmington Township
FarmingtonLandstad

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

The story so far

Farmington Township, in brief

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

Farmington Township is a township in Walsh County, North Dakota, United States. 55.4% (98) of the population are male, and the other 44.6% (79) are female. It contains the census-designated place of Nash.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 176 to 142 (-19%).

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

Timeline

Farmington Township, 1883 to 1989

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1883Post officeThe Auburn post office opens
  3. 1891Post officeThe Nash post office opens
  4. 20th century
  5. 1943Post officeThe Auburn post office closes
  6. 1952On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  7. 1989Post officeThe Nash post office closes
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

Farmington Township on the map, 1952 to 1967

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

Farmington Township on the 1952 USGS mapFarmington 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 Farmington Township.

Famous people

Famous people close to Farmington Township

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

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Fern HeadleyAmerican ice hockey player · b. 1900
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Edward Kramer ThompsonAmerican writer · b. 1907
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Grafton TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townGlenwood Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townMartin TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townSt. Thomas 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 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.