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History · Denver Township

37% of Denver Township’s homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the Omdalen Barn.

1on the National Register
37%homes built before 1940
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On the National Register

1 historic place in Denver 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
2006
Omdalen Barn
Omdalen Barn, built 1910
Buildings

Architectural styles listings

Bank Barn1
All 1 listings
Omdalen BarnBuilding · listed 2006

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
Lutheran ChurchchurchSchool Number 33schoolSchool Number 40schoolSchool Number 41schoolSchool Number 42schoolSchool Number 44schoolSchool Number 45schoolSchool Number 46schoolSchool Number 47school
4cemeteries and burying grounds inside Denver Township
HetlandNielsenNordlandOld Nordland

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.

Arlington4 historic placesnot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townSpring Lake Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townBadger Township3 historic placesnot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townBaker TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townBangor TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townWinsor TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Denver Township’s history

What is on the National Register in Denver Township?

One place: the Omdalen Barn (listed 2006).

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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.