Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 42% of U.S. towns. What drives it
Its Register listing is the Eli Harvey House. Most of Adams Township was built recently: 3% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1979. Below: 1 old photo or paper, maps from 1907 on, and old-book passages.
More historic than 42% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Adams Township is more historic than 42% of U.S. towns. Its National Register listings hold the grade up; its share of homes from before 1940 pulls it down.
Ohio towns list about as much on the Register as the country (a typical Ohio town has 2.9 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Adams Township’s 8.3 sits above most of its state (72% of Ohio towns have fewer) while its 2 historic buildings outnumber those of 60% 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 Adams 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).
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Adams 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 Adams Township.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Adams Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Adams Township is one of the thirteen townships of Clinton County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2020 census the population was 2,040.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 2,091 to 2,040 (-2%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Adams Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
In 1852, work was begun in Adams Township in the construction of the Cincinnati, Wilmington & Zanesville Railroad. Adams Township, at an election previously held, had voted in favor of the county issuing bonds to the amount of $200,000, to assist in building it.* The first station or stoppingplace for trains in Adams Township was at Andrew’s Mill. In 1855, the station was changed by the railroad company from Andrew’s Mill to a point on the road a half-mile farther east, near Burton’s Mill, formerly Holaday’s, Asa Green donating to the company sufficient land for a switch and other needed
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Adams Township.—The first settler in this portion of the county was Samuel Lee, who came in 1804 and made his home near the present site of Springfield meeting house. Jefferson Township.—This. township was settled considerably later. The first cabin within its limits was built by Samuel Jackson, about 1812. Mr. Jackson came from Tennessee, and was a noted hunter. It is recorded that, during his life time, he killed two panthers, three hundrec and sixty deer and.eighty bears. Joseph Hockett built the first hewed-log house in this township, but it is unfortunate that no date can be given.
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.
One decade in the archive so far: the 1890s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
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 Adams Township’s page.
Retake this view · +15The 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 Adams Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Adams Township is more historic than 42% 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.
One place: the Eli Harvey House (listed 1978).
3% of Adams Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±3.3 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1979.
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 (5), the Library of Congress (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.
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