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History · Virginia Township

Virginia Township’s post office opened in 1869, and 50% of its homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the Swanson House.

1869first post office
1on the National Register
50%homes built before 1940
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How Virginia Township began

When was Virginia Township founded?

1869

The Virginia Township post office opened in 1869, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Virginia (1869), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 231157 years
Founding year: the first Virginia Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).
On the National Register

1 historic place in Virginia 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
2006
Swanson House
Swanson House, built 1911
Buildings

Architectural styles listings

Prairie Style1
Swanson HousePrairie Style · Built 1911

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, places now gone and burying grounds

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

Gone or out of use
School Number 66schoolSchool Number 69school
1cemetery inside Virginia Township
Pleasant Valley

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.

Eden TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townBig Springs TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townAlcester TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townSioux Valley Township2 historic placesnot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Virginia Township’s history

What year was Virginia Township founded?

The Virginia Township post office opened in 1869, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Virginia Township?

One place: the Swanson House (listed 2006).

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 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.