Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: maps from 1958 on and old-book passages.
The Money Creek Township post office opened in 1856, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Money Creek (1856), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
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 Money Creek Township’s history is told.
From Wikipedia’s history of Money Creek Township.
Money Creek was platted in 1856 by the name of Clinton. The community took its name from nearby Money Creek. A post office was established at Money Creek in 1856, and remained in operation until 1907.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention Money Creek Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
District No. 89, Money Creek Township, had its first school in 1876, with Thomas Lane as the first teacher. School District No. 90, Mayville^Township, was set off from District No. 34, in 1876, and took the site of the original schoolhouse. The original district had been organized in the late fifties, and school held in various available houses until 1865, when a schoolhouse was erected on section 4.
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.
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Money Creek 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 Money Creek Township.
Nobody well known was born in Money Creek Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Another post office, Money Creek, 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).
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The Money Creek Township post office opened in 1856, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
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 Wikipedia, 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.
