Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 13% of U.S. towns. What drives it
Most of Ohio Township was built recently: 3% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1978. Below: maps from 1942 on and old-book passages.
More historic than 13% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Ohio Township is more historic than 13% of U.S. towns. Its share of homes from before 1940 holds the grade up; its National Register listings pull it down.
Indiana towns list more on the Register than most of the country (a typical Indiana town has 7.9 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Ohio Township’s 0.0 sits below most of its state (22% of Indiana towns have fewer) while its 0 listings outnumber those of 23% of U.S. towns.
Founding year: our sources. Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Ohio Township’s history is told.
Two other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Ohio Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Ohio Township is one of twelve townships in Bartholomew County, Indiana, United States. As of the 2010 census, its population was 1,787 and it contained 782 housing units.
Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 1,787 in 2010, 1,756 in 2020.
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Ohio Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Wolves, deer and wild turkey were still abundant. The second school was held near the present town of Wa3-mansville on the Wantland farm about 1845. It was taught b}' Gideon Fitch, father of Samuel Fitch, of Ohio Township. Soon after the town of Mount Healthy was laid out an effort was made to establish a school; a round log cabin was erected and a school was taught in 1S47, by William Howbert. This house was replaced in a few years by a large, roughly made frame building, which was called the Mount Healthy
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Ohio Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Ohio Township.
Nobody well known was born in Ohio Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Ohio Township is more historic than 13% of U.S. towns. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.
3% of Ohio Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±3.8 points), against a typical 14% for an Indiana town; the median home was built in 1978.
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
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).
From Wikimedia Commons (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.
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