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History · Tiverton Township

Tiverton Township’s post office opened in 1839

Most of Tiverton Township was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 2002. Below: maps from 1913 on.

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How Tiverton Township began

When was Tiverton Township founded?

1839

The Tiverton Township post office opened in 1839, the earliest record of the town by name. Three smaller post offices, Tiverton (1839), Yankee Ridge (1854) and Wintergreen (1893), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 492187 years
Founding year: the first Tiverton Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Tiverton 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 Tiverton Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages3 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Tiverton Township, and 2 old place names are still on the map.Deep rootsA post office since 1839: 187 years of Tiverton Township.
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Start Tiverton Township’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Tiverton Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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Places that used to be

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

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

Tiverton
1839–1910
Yankee Ridge
1854–1894
Wintergreen
1893–1932
18301930today
Hamlets and corners on the map
CavalloTiverton Center
Gone or out of use
Bald Hill SchoolschoolDutch Run SchoolschoolHunter SchoolschoolTiverton Post Officepost office
5cemeteries and burying grounds inside Tiverton Township
BordenDutch RunMcKeeTiverton BaptistTiverton

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

Timeline

Tiverton Township, 1839 to 1932

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1839Post officeThe Tiverton post office opens
  3. 1854Post officeThe Yankee Ridge post office opens
  4. 1893Post officeThe Wintergreen post office opens
  5. 1894Post officeThe Yankee Ridge post office closes
  6. 20th century
  7. 1910Post officeThe Tiverton post office closes
  8. 1913On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  9. 1932Post officeThe Wintergreen post office closes
The story so far

Tiverton Township, in brief

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

Its first post office opened in 1839. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 449 to 492 (+10%).

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

Tiverton Township on the map, 1913 to 1962

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

Tiverton Township on the 1913 USGS mapTiverton Township on the 1962 USGS map1913Brinkhaven sheet · 1:62,500

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Tiverton Township.

Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Newcastle TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townUnion TownshipIts storyBMonroe TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townRichland TownshipIts storyB

Questions about Tiverton Township’s history

What year was Tiverton Township founded?

The Tiverton Township post office opened in 1839, 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.