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History · Menoken Township

Menoken Township’s post office opened in 1883, and 1 of its places is on the National Register

Most of Menoken Township was built recently: 6% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1972. Its Register listing is the Depression Era Work Relief Construction Features at Menoken State Historic Site.

1883first post office
1on the National Register
6%homes built before 1940
Photo: Andrew Filer from Seattle (ex-Minneapolis) · CC BY-SA 2.0
Quick answers

How Menoken Township began

When was Menoken Township founded?

1883

The Menoken Township post office opened in 1883, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Clarke's Farm (1880), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 177143 years
Founding year: the first Menoken Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).
On the National Register

1 historic place in Menoken Township

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

place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
1
each building in a district counts
first listed
2010
Depression Era Work Relief Construction Feature…
Buildings

Architectural styles listings

Late Gothic Revival1
Picturesque1
WPA Rustic1
All 1 listings

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

Famous people

Famous people close to Menoken Township

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

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Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners and burying grounds

Another post office, Clarke's Farm, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Clarke's Farm
1880–1883
Menoken
1883–today
18801950today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Menoken
1cemetery inside Menoken Township
Menoken

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 Menoken Township’s history

What year was Menoken Township founded?

The Menoken Township post office opened in 1883, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Menoken Township?

One place: the Depression Era Work Relief Construction Features at Menoken State Historic Site (listed 2010).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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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 the National Register of Historic Places (1), 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.