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History · Palisade Township

Palisade Township’s post office opened in 1878, and 1 of its places is on the National Register

Most of Palisade Township was built recently: 3% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 2002. Its Register listing is the Palisades Bridge.

1878first post office
1on the National Register
3%homes built before 1940
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How Palisade Township began

When was Palisade Township founded?

1878

The Palisade Township post office opened in 1878, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Palisade (1878), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 399148 years
Founding year: the first Palisade Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).
On the National Register

1 historic place in Palisade 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
1999
Palisades Bridge
Palisades Bridge, built 1908
Structures

Architectural styles listings

Pratt pin connected through truss1
Palisades BridgePratt pin connected through truss · Built 1908

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, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

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

Hamlets and corners on the map
Oak Park Estates
Gone or out of use
Palisadelocale
1cemetery inside Palisade Township
Sherman

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.

Edison TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townSherman1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townHighland TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townRed Rock Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Palisade Township’s history

What year was Palisade Township founded?

The Palisade Township post office opened in 1878, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Palisade Township?

One place: the Palisades Bridge (listed 1999).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Sources

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), 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.