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History · West Hanson Township

1 of West Hanson Township’s places is on the National Register

Its Register listing is the Anna Herron Farm.

1on the National Register
0.0%homes built before 1940
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On the National Register

1 historic place in West Hanson Township

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

place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
7
each building in a district counts
first listed
1995
Anna Herron Farm
Anna Herron Farm
Buildings

Architectural styles listings

Late Victorian1
Queen Anne1
All 1 listings
Anna Herron FarmBuilding · listed 1995

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, Dodge, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Gone or out of use
Dodgelocale
1cemetery inside West Hanson Township
West Hanson

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.

East Hanson Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townFerney1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townGarden Prairie TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townGem Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about West Hanson Township’s history

What is on the National Register in West Hanson Township?

One place: the Anna Herron Farm (listed 1995).

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.