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History · Walshville Township

Walshville Township’s post office opened in 1878, and 13% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1979 on.

1878first post office
0on the National Register
13%homes built before 1940
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Quick answers

How Walshville Township began

When was Walshville Township founded?

1878

The Walshville Township post office opened in 1878, the earliest record of the town by name. Two smaller post offices, Walshville (1878) and Poland (1906), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 71148 years
Founding year: the first Walshville Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Walshville 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 Walshville Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Walshville Township, and 1 old place names are still on the map.Old housesHalf of Walshville Township’s homes were built before 1962.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Walshville 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 places now gone

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

Walshville
1878–1914
Poland
1906–1919
18701950today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Poland
Gone or out of use
Walshvillelocale

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

The story so far

Walshville Township, in brief

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

Walshville Township is a township in Walsh County, North Dakota, United States.

Its first post office opened in 1878. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 112 to 71 (-37%).

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

Timeline

Walshville Township, 1878 to 1979

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1878Post officeThe Walshville post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1906Post officeThe Poland post office opens
  5. 1914Post officeThe Walshville post office closes
  6. 1919Post officeThe Poland post office closes
  7. 1979On 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

Walshville Township on the map, 1979 to 1985

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

Walshville Township on the 1979 USGS mapWalshville Township on the 1985 USGS map1979Oslo 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 Walshville Township.

Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Pulaski Township2 historic placesnot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townArdoch TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townTurtle River TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Walshville Township’s history

What year was Walshville Township founded?

The Walshville Township post office opened in 1878, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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 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.