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History · Daneville Township

35% of Daneville Township’s homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the Daneville Township Bridge No. E-26. Below: maps from 1898 on.

1on the National Register
35%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Daneville 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 Daneville Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages3 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Daneville Township.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Daneville Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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Places that used to be

Lost post offices, places now gone and burying grounds

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

Adealia
1880–1886
Freya
1881–1892
Adelia
1888–1892
18801950today
Gone or out of use
AdelialocaleDanevillelocaleFreyalocale
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Daneville Township
BaptistHansen

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

The story so far

Daneville Township, in brief

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

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 207 to 184 (-11%).

Timeline

Daneville Township, 1880 to 1898

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1880Post officeThe Adealia post office opens
  3. 1881Post officeThe Freya post office opens
  4. 1886Post officeThe Adealia post office closes
  5. 1888Post officeThe Adelia post office opens
  6. 1892Post officeThe Freya post office closes
  7. 1892Post officeThe Adelia post office closes
  8. 1898On 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

Daneville Township on the map, 1898 to 1985

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

Daneville Township on the 1898 USGS mapDaneville Township on the 1985 USGS map1898Parker sheet · 1:125,000

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

On the National Register

1 historic place in Daneville 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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historic buildings protected
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each building in a district counts
first listed
1999
Daneville Township Bridge No. E-26
Daneville Township Bridge No. E-26
Structures

Architectural styles listings

Stone arch1
All 1 listings
Daneville Township Bridge No. E-26Structure · listed 1999

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

Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Viborg2 historic placesnot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townIrene1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townStar Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townCenterville Township2 historic placesnot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townTurkey Valley Township2 historic placesnot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townSwan Lake TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Daneville Township’s history

What is on the National Register in Daneville Township?

One place: the Daneville Township Bridge No. E-26 (listed 1999).

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 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.