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History · Grand River Township

Grand River Township’s post office opened in 1907

Below: maps from 1984 on.

1907first post office
0on the National Register
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How Grand River Township began

When was Grand River Township founded?

1907

The Grand River Township post office opened in 1907, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Grand River (1907), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 22119 years
Founding year: the first Grand River Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Grand River Township’s past

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

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The story so far

Grand River Township, in brief

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

Grand River Township is a township in Perkins County, in the U.S. state of South Dakota. As of the 2020 census, it contains 51 people and 32 households.

Its first post office opened in 1907. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 17 to 22 (+29%).

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

Timeline

Grand River Township, 1907 to 1984

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

  1. 20th century
  2. 1907Post officeThe Grand River post office opens
  3. 1914Post officeThe Grand River post office closes
  4. 1984On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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On the map

Grand River Township on the map in 1984

The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Grand River Township.

Grand River Township on the 1984 USGS map1984Lemmon sheet · 1:100,000

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

Places that used to be

Lost post offices

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

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.

Lodgepole TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Grand River Township’s history

What year was Grand River Township founded?

The Grand River Township post office opened in 1907, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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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 U.S. Geological Survey historical maps and the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.