The Spring Grove post office opened in 1849, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Clarence (1849), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
2020 census: 919177 years
Founding year: the first Spring Grove post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).
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Spring Grove is a town in Green County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 919 at the 2020 census. The unincorporated community of Oakley and the ghost towns of Clarence and Tyrone are located in the town.
Its first post office opened in 1849. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 874 to 919 (+5%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
From the old history books
What they wrote about Spring Grove, 1877–1884
Passages that mention Spring Grove, cut from the printed page as they were published.
History of Green County, Wisconsin1884 · page 791Read the page →
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where he settled in 1848, and which he purchased of the government. Mr. Enfield has resided in the county since April 29, 1844. He lived in the town of Spring Grove, about one year, then removed to the town of Jefferson, where he also lived about one year. He finally settled in the town of Spring Grove in 1846, on forty acres of land, which he entered. He came
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History of Green County, Wisconsin1884 · page 1067Read the page →
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rying, Chadwick settled on and opened up a farm on section 22, in now the town of Jefferson, this county, and myself on section 19, town of Spring Grove. In the spring of 1841 I built a house for Samuel Myers, at the then saw mill of Kline & Myers (formerly Kline's mill), on section 20, being the first frame built in the town. In the summer, fall and winter
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History of Green County, Wisconsin1877 · page 200Read the page →
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crossing on the Beloit road, there had been for a number of years a settlement of Canadians, sometimes called Derrick's settlement, as the settlement of the immigrants from the Wabash around Spring Grove was called Kline's settlement. Prominent in Derrick's settlement were the families of Boslow and Dr. P. B.
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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 Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (1), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
