Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Most of Aid Township was built recently: 2% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 2004. Below: maps from 1898 on.
The Aid Township post office opened in 1850, the earliest record of the town by name. Three smaller post offices, Aid (1850), Johns Creek (1887) and Cherryville (1890), 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 Aid Township’s history is told.
Three other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.
Aid Cemetery · Aldridge Cemetery · Barnett Cemetery · Boggs Cemetery · Bradshaw Cemetery · Dennin Cemetery · Jennick Cemetery · Joe Delawder Cemetery · John Neal Cemetery · Lambert Cemetery · Nelson Cemetery · Oakland Chapel Cemetery · Rankin Cemetery · Robinson Cemetery · Rucker Cemetery · Russell Cemetery · Slab Fork Church Cemetery · Stewart - Werner Cemetery · Walters Cemetery · Yates Cemetery · Yates Cemetery
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 Aid 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 Aid Township.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Aid Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Aid Township is one of the fourteen townships of Lawrence County, Ohio, United States. The township had a population of 819 at the 2020 census.
Its first post office opened in 1850. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 875 to 819 (-6%).
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.
Born hereSimeon S. Willis is 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.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The Aid Township post office opened in 1850, 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 Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) 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.
