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History · Norton Township

Norton Township’s post office opened in 1892, and 40% of its homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the District No. 70-Hoff Rural School.

1892first post office
1on the National Register
40%homes built before 1940
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How Norton Township began

When was Norton Township founded?

1892

The Norton Township post office opened in 1892, the earliest record of the town by name. Two smaller post offices, Galt (1883) and Norton (1892), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 54134 years
Founding year: the first Norton Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).
On the National Register

1 historic place in Norton 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
2008
District No. 70-Hoff Rural School
District No. 70-Hoff Rural School
Buildings

Architectural styles listings

Classical Revival1
Vernacular1
All 1 listings
District No. 70-Hoff Rural SchoolBuilding · listed 2008

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

Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

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

Galt
1883–1892
Norton
1892–1932
18801950today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Lankin
Gone or out of use
Galtlocale
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Norton Township
Hoff Lutheran ChurchMachart

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.

Latona TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townVernon TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townCleveland TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townVesta TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townPerth TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Norton Township’s history

What year was Norton Township founded?

The Norton Township post office opened in 1892, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Norton Township?

One place: the District No. 70-Hoff Rural School (listed 2008).

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), 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.