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History · Harmony Township

89% of Harmony Township’s homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the Harmony Friends Church. Below: maps from 1973 on.

1on the National Register
89%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Harmony 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

Harmony Township, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Harmony 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 22 to 16 (-27%).

Timeline

Harmony Township, 1883 to 1973

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1883Post officeThe Templeton post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1909Post officeThe Templeton post office closes
  5. 1913BuiltHarmony Friends Church is built
  6. 1973On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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On the map

Harmony Township on the map, 1973 to 1985

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

Harmony Township on the 1973 USGS mapHarmony Township on the 1985 USGS map1973Wessington Springs 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 Harmony Township.

On the National Register

1 historic place in Harmony Township

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

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2015
Harmony Friends Church
Harmony Friends Church, built 1913
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Harmony Friends ChurchBuilt 1913

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 and places now gone

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

Gone or out of use
Coleman School Number 2schoolHanson School Number 1schoolStony Point School Number 3schoolTempleton Post Officepost officeTempleton School Number 4school

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.

Chery TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townMarlar TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townBates TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townPleasant TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Harmony Township’s history

What is on the National Register in Harmony Township?

One place: the Harmony Friends Church (listed 2015).

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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), 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.