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History · Choteau Creek Township

23% of Choteau Creek Township’s homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the Wagner House. Below: maps from 1978 on.

1on the National Register
23%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Choteau Creek 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 Choteau Creek Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Choteau Creek Township’s history is told.

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The story so far

Choteau Creek Township, in brief

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

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 213 to 232 (+9%).

Timeline

Choteau Creek Township, 1898 to 1978

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1898Post officeThe Morrison post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1904Post officeThe Morrison post office closes
  5. 1919BuiltWagner House is built
  6. 1978On 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

Choteau Creek Township on the map, 1978 to 1986

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

Choteau Creek Township on the 1978 USGS mapChoteau Creek Township on the 1986 USGS map1978Greenwood Colony 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 Choteau Creek Township.

On the National Register

1 historic place in Choteau Creek Township

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

place listed
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National Historic Landmarks
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none yet
historic buildings protected
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each building in a district counts
first listed
2007
Wagner House
Wagner House, built 1919
Buildings

Architectural styles listings

Craftsman1
Wagner HouseCraftsman · Built 1919

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

Another post office, Morrison, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Hamlets and corners on the map
Clearfield Colony
Gone or out of use
Morrisonlocale
5cemeteries and burying grounds inside Choteau Creek Township
Bohemian PresbyterianCongregational ChurchNew SalemSaint Pauls LutheranZion Baptist Church

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.

East Choteau TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townBryan TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townKennedy Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townOak Hollow TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townLone Tree TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Choteau Creek Township’s history

What is on the National Register in Choteau Creek Township?

One place: the Wagner House (listed 2007).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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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 the National Register of Historic Places (1), 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.