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History · Belmont Township

74% of Belmont Township’s homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1979 on.

0on the National Register
74%homes built before 1940

What stands out about Belmont Township’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

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Start Belmont Township’s collection

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

Decades since 1900 with photos
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
The story so far

Belmont Township, in brief

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

Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 67 in 2010, 68 in 2020.

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

Belmont Township on the map, 1979 to 1986

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

Belmont Township on the 1979 USGS mapBelmont Township on the 1986 USGS map1979Delmont 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 Belmont Township.

Places that used to be

Places now gone and burying grounds

Gone or out of use
Brenner SchoolschoolSerr Schoolschool
5cemeteries and burying grounds inside Belmont Township
DelmontEmmanuel LutheranHope LutheranOld MissouriZion Lutheran

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 Belmont Township’s history

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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 U.S. Geological Survey historical maps 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.