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History · Agency Township

11% of Agency Township’s homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the Sisseton Agency Headquarters & Wacipi Grounds.

1on the National Register
11%homes built before 1940
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On the National Register

1 historic place in Agency 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
2022
Sisseton Agency Headquarters & Wacipi Grounds
Sisseton Agency Headquarters & Wacipi Grounds
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Sisseton Agency Headquarters & Wacipi GroundsSite · listed 2022

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

Places that used to be

Places now gone and burying grounds

Gone or out of use
School Number 1school
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Agency Township
Renville FamilySaint Mary's Episcopal

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.

Spring Grove TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townGoodwill TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townOne Road Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townLawrence TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townAgency VillageIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Agency Township’s history

What is on the National Register in Agency Township?

One place: the Sisseton Agency Headquarters & Wacipi Grounds (listed 2022).

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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) 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.