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History · Good Luck Township

32% of Good Luck Township’s homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1953 on.

0on the National Register
32%homes built before 1940

What stands out about Good Luck Township’s past

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

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Start Good Luck Township’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Good Luck 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.
The story so far

Good Luck Township, in brief

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

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 26 to 40 (+54%).

Timeline

Good Luck Township, 1906 to 1953

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

  1. 20th century
  2. 1906Post officeThe Gladys post office opens
  3. 1918Post officeThe Gladys post office closes
  4. 1953On 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

Good Luck Township on the map, 1953 to 1974

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

Good Luck Township on the 1953 USGS mapGood Luck 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 Good Luck Township.

Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners and burying grounds

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

Hamlets and corners on the map
Gladys
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Good Luck Township
GladysSaint Boniface

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.

Questions about Good Luck Township’s history

Memory lane

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Sources

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.