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History · Glendo Township

Glendo Township’s post office opened in 1909

Below: maps from 1983 on.

1909first post office
0on the National Register
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How Glendo Township began

When was Glendo Township founded?

1909

The Glendo Township post office opened in 1909, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Glendo (1909), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 8117 years
Founding year: the first Glendo Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Glendo Township’s past

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The story so far

Glendo Township, in brief

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

Glendo Township is a township in Perkins County, in the U.S. state of South Dakota. Its estimated population in 2019 was 13. The US census marked the township's population as 64 in 1920 and 76 in 1930.

Its first post office opened in 1909. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 14 to 8 (-43%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline

Glendo Township, 1909 to 1983

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

  1. 20th century
  2. 1909Post officeThe Glendo post office opens
  3. 1926Post officeThe Glendo post office closes
  4. 1983On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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On the map

Glendo Township on the map in 1983

The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Glendo Township.

Glendo Township on the 1983 USGS map1983Prairie City NW 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 Glendo Township.

Places that used to be

Lost post offices and burying grounds

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

1cemetery inside Glendo Township
Scion - Glendo

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.

Wilson Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townSidney TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Glendo Township’s history

What year was Glendo Township founded?

The Glendo Township post office opened in 1909, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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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 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.