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History · Rauville Township

Rauville Township’s post office opened in 1888

Most of Rauville Township was built recently: 4% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1981. Below: maps from 1970 on.

1888first post office
0on the National Register
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How Rauville Township began

When was Rauville Township founded?

1888

The Rauville Township post office opened in 1888, the earliest record of the town by name. Two smaller post offices, Rauville (1888) and Rawville (1889), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 271138 years
Founding year: the first Rauville Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Rauville Township’s past

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

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Rauville Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Rauville Township, and 1 old place names are still on the map.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Rauville Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

Two other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.

Rauville
1888–1908
Rawville
1889–1892
18801950today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Rauville
Gone or out of use
Saint Johns Churchchurch
1cemetery inside Rauville Township
Saint John's Evangelical Lutheran

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

The story so far

Rauville Township, in brief

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

Its first post office opened in 1888. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 282 to 271 (-4%).

Timeline

Rauville Township, 1888 to 1970

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1888Post officeThe Rauville post office opens
  3. 1889Post officeThe Rawville post office opens
  4. 1892Post officeThe Rawville post office closes
  5. 20th century
  6. 1908Post officeThe Rauville post office closes
  7. 1970On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

No old photos in the archives yet

Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

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On the map

Rauville Township on the map, 1970 to 1985

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

Rauville Township on the 1970 USGS mapRauville Township on the 1985 USGS map1970Still Lake SE 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 Rauville Township.

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Fuller Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townGermantown Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townLake TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townElmira Township3 historic placesnot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townWaverly TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Rauville Township’s history

What year was Rauville Township founded?

The Rauville Township post office opened in 1888, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

Memory lane

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, 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.