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History · Leipzig Township

Leipzig Township’s post office opened in 1896, and 22% of its homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the Hope Lutheran Church. Below: maps from 1980 on.

1896first post office
1on the National Register
22%homes built before 1940
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How Leipzig Township began

When was Leipzig Township founded?

1896

The Leipzig Township post office opened in 1896, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Leipzig (1896), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 28130 years
Founding year: the first Leipzig Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Leipzig 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 Leipzig Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Leipzig Township’s homes were built before 1945.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Leipzig Township’s history is told.

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The story

How Leipzig Township came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Leipzig Township.

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The name "Leipzig" is a Slavic word that originated circa 1015 in Germany, meaning "a settlement by the lime trees." A settlement named Leipzig was founded in Bessarabia in 1844 by request of the Emperor of Austria. In 1896, 15 German-Russian Leipziger families travelled to the United States and started a new community named after their former home. In 1910, the Northern Pacific Railroad bypassed Leipzig and instead ran 11 miles to the southwest. The Leipzigers then moved their settlement to that location in May and founded New Leipzig.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Leipzig Township, 1896 to 1980

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1896Post officeThe Leipzig post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1915Post officeThe Leipzig post office closes
  5. 1980On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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No old photos in the archives yet

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On the map

Leipzig Township on the map in 1980

The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Leipzig Township.

Leipzig Township on the 1980 USGS map1980Lake Tschida East 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 Leipzig Township.

On the National Register

1 historic place in Leipzig Township

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

place listed
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National Historic Landmarks
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historic buildings protected
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each building in a district counts
first listed
1992
Hope Lutheran Church
Hope Lutheran Church
Buildings
Hope Lutheran ChurchBuilding

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

Famous people

Famous people close to Leipzig Township

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

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Donald SchaibleMember of North Dakota State Senate · b. 1957
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Melvin J. MillerAmerican politician – Minnesota -House 1973-74 … · b. 1919
Places that used to be

Lost post offices and burying grounds

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

1cemetery inside Leipzig Township
Hope Lutheran (Old Stone)

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.

Minnie TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Leipzig Township’s history

What year was Leipzig Township founded?

The Leipzig Township post office opened in 1896, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Leipzig Township?

One place: the Hope Lutheran Church (listed 1992).

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 the National Register of Historic Places (1), 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.