Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Its Register listings are the J. R. Rice Barn and Granary and the J.R. Rice Farmstead. Its Register listings are the J. R. Rice Barn and Granary and the J.R. Rice Farmstead. Below: maps from 1892 on.
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 Township 9’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Township 9. 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 Township 9.
From Wikipedia’s history of Township 9.
Township 9 was originally made up of McClellan, Banner, and Richland Townships. Parts of McClellan and Richland Townships were used to make Ninnescah Township in the 1910s. All of those townships were dissolved and merged into Township 9 in the 1970s.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Nobody well known was born in Township 9 itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Two places: the J. R. Rice Barn and Granary (listed 1995) and the J.R. Rice Farmstead (2000).
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). How TownRatings grades history →
From the National Register of Historic Places (2), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps 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.
