On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Amboy Township is more historic than 56% of U.S. towns. Its share of homes from before 1940 holds the grade up; its National Register listings pull it down.
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HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Amboy Township’s overall grade.
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 Amboy 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.
How sure. Graded on two of the three inputs, so a change in either one moves the letter more than it would with three. The pre-1940 share is a Census survey estimate (±7.1 points).
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 →
What stands out about Amboy Township’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Amboy Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1911Swanton sheet · 1:62,500
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Amboy Township.
The story so far
Amboy Township, in brief
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Amboy Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Amboy Township is one of the twelve townships of Fulton County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2020 census the population was 1,878, up from 1,846 at the 2010 census. 1,219 of the residents lived in the unincorporated portions of the township in 2010.
Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 1,846 in 2010, 1,878 in 2020.
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
From the old history books
What they wrote about Amboy Township in 1920
Passages that mention Amboy Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
A standard history of Fulton County, Ohio, an authentic narrative of the past, with an extended survey of modern developments in the progress of town and county1920 · page 320Read the page →
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hood years in Amboy, and has maintained a close interest with Metamora and the township, has contributed the following “Recollections of the Schools of Amboy Township seventy years ago.” He writes: “There were only four schoolhouses in Amboy Township in the fall of 1849: one near Metamora; one on a farm now owned by George Davoll, and called Davoll School; one on the town line west, near Santee Corners ; and one on east and west road, west of Bartlett’s Corners. at the intersection of an angling road from Metamora, s. w. to
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
A standard history of Fulton County, Ohio, an authentic narrative of the past, with an extended survey of modern developments in the progress of town and county1920 · page 446Read the page →
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Nominally, the whole of the territory now included in Fulton Township was, in 1836 included in the bounds of York; Township, soon, however, to be transferred to the jurisdiction of Swan Creek Township, and part of it, in 1837, retransferred to Amboy Township. At the time of the settlement of the Michigan-Ohio dispute, there were, it has been estimated, about twenty-five families resident within that part of the disputed strip now included within the boundaries of Fulton Township, and some of them had unpleasant experiences
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Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Timeline
Amboy Township, 1888 to 1911
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Amboy Township is more historic than 56% 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.
How old are the homes in Amboy Township?
29% of Amboy 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 1975.
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 U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), 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.
