Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 57% of U.S. towns. What drives it
Below: maps from 1911 on and old-book passages.
The Amanda Township post office opened in 1826, the earliest record of the town by name. Three smaller post offices, Amanda (1826), Armstrong (1872) and Conant (1884), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
More historic than 57% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Amanda Township is more historic than 57% of U.S. towns. Its age holds the grade up; its National Register listings pull 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 Amanda Township’s 0.0 sits below most of its state (23% of Ohio towns have fewer) while its 0 listings outnumber those of 23% of U.S. towns.
Founding year: the first post office (other dates in Quick answers). 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 Amanda Township’s history is told.
Three 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 Amanda 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 Amanda Township.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Amanda Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Amanda Township is one of the twelve townships of Allen County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2020 census the population was 2,061.
Its first post office opened in 1826. Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 2,071 in 2010, 2,061 in 2020.
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Amanda Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
W. P. Dehart, a settler of Amanda Township, in 1837, is a pioneer of Spencer, having settled there in 1843, the year before Canover, McConnell and Tyler platted?the village of Spencerville.
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Cullough, in his reminiscences, states that he visited a nursery on the Sunderland farm in Amanda Township, soon after he commenced to clear his own farm in 1835. He was told that the trees were planted by John Chapman some years before; and further, that the old man had been along the Ottawa and Auglaize Rivers seeking out alluvial lands to set out orchards, before white men had effected a settlement in Allen County.
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Cullough, in his reminiscences, states that he visited a nursery on the Sunderland farm in Amanda Township, soon after he commenced to clear his own farm in 1835. He was told that the trees were planted by John Chapman some years bofore; and further, that the old man had been along the Ottawa and Auglaize Rivers seeking out alluvial lands to set out orchards, before white men had effected a settlement in Allen County.
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Samuel Baxter settled in Amanda Township in 1828 with his sons, Curtiss and Sdiith Baxter. The latter came with him when only four years of age, and the former when six years old. His death took place August 10, 1830, while Mrs. Baxter lived until August 26, 1854.
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 SurveyNobody well known was born in Amanda Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The Amanda Township post office opened in 1826, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
Amanda Township is more historic than 57% 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.
16% of Amanda Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±7.1 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1974.
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 (4), 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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