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History · Vale Township

Vale Township’s post office opened in 1883, and 40% of its homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the Vale School.

1883first post office
1on the National Register
40%homes built before 1940
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Quick answers

How Vale Township began

When was Vale Township founded?

1883

The Vale Township post office opened in 1883, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 114143 years
Founding year: the first Vale Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).
On the National Register

1 historic place in Vale Township

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

place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
2
each building in a district counts
first listed
1984
Vale School
Vale School, built 1914
Buildings
All 1 listings
Vale SchoolBuilding · listed 1984

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

Places that used to be

Old corners

Old hamlets and crossroads still carry their names on the map.

Hamlets and corners on the map
Vale

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.

Vale2 historic placesnot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Vale Township’s history

What year was Vale Township founded?

The Vale Township post office opened in 1883, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Vale Township?

One place: the Vale School (listed 1984).

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.