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History · Wellington Township

Wellington Township’s post office opened in 1882, and 37% of its homes were built before 1940

1882first post office
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How Wellington Township began

When was Wellington Township founded?

1882

The Wellington Township post office opened in 1882, the earliest record of the town by name. Two smaller post offices, Celton (1879) and Wellington (1882), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 279144 years
Founding year: the first Wellington Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Wellington 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 Wellington Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Wellington Township, and 1 old place names are still on the map.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Wellington Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
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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.

Celton
1879–1889
Wellington
1882–1903
18701950today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Pumpkin Center
Gone or out of use
CeltonlocaleWellingtonlocaleWellingtonlocale
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Wellington Township
German MethodistSaint Joseph Catholic

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

The story so far

Wellington Township, in brief

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

Its first post office opened in 1882. Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 277 in 2010, 279 in 2020.

Timeline

Wellington Township, 1879 to 1903

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1879Post officeThe Celton post office opens
  3. 1882Post officeThe Wellington post office opens
  4. 1889Post officeThe Celton post office closes
  5. 20th century
  6. 1903Post officeThe Wellington post office closes
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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Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Wall Lake TownshipIts storyC−Humboldt TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townSpring Valley TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Wellington Township’s history

What year was Wellington Township founded?

The Wellington Township post office opened in 1882, 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 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.