Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 88% of U.S. towns. What drives it
2 places in town are on the National Register. Below: 18 old photos and papers and maps from 1966 on.
More historic than 88% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Omaha Township is more historic than 88% of U.S. towns. All 2 inputs are above most U.S. towns; its share of homes from before 1940 ranks highest and its National Register listings lowest.
Nebraska towns list more on the Register than most of the country (a typical Nebraska town has 16.3 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Omaha Township’s 30.2 sits above most of its state (73% of Nebraska towns have fewer) while its 3 historic buildings outnumber those of 65% 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.
2 decades in the archive, from the 1910s to the 1930s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
1917Food Admin
1938Omaha, Nebraska
1938Omaha, Nebraska
1938Omaha, Nebraska
1938Omaha, Nebraska
1938Nebraska Power Company. Omaha, Nebraska
1938South Omaha, Nebraska
1938Schoolboys
1938Cop
1938Omaha, Nebraska
1938Mission
1938Saloon. Omaha, Nebraska
1938Stockyards. Omaha, Nebraska
1938Newsstand. Omaha, Nebraska
1938Catholic school
1938Danger zone
1938Unloading coal
1938Residential districtWikipedia doesn’t have a history of Omaha Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Omaha Township is one of eleven townships in Thurston County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 1,041 at the 2020 census. The Village of Walthill lies within the Township.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 1,204 to 997 (-17%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
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 Omaha 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 Omaha Township.
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Omaha Township’s page.
Retake this view · +15The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving. One is a National Historic Landmark, the highest tier.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Nobody well known was born in Omaha Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Omaha Township is more historic than 88% 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.
27% of Omaha Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±9.9 points), against a typical 18% for a Nebraska town; the median home was built in 1963.
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 the Library of Congress (18), 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.
