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History · Antioch

Antioch’s post office opened in 1839, and 58% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1960 on and the census since 1850.

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Quick answers

How Antioch began

When was Antioch founded?

1839

The Antioch post office opened in 1839, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 107 in 18502020 census: 71187 years
Founding year: the first Antioch post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Antioch’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Antioch are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Antioch’s homes were built before 1938.Boom and bustPeaked at 212 in 1900; 71 people lived here in 2020.Deep rootsA post office since 1839: 187 years of Antioch.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Antioch’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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The story so far

Antioch, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Antioch yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Antioch is a village in Monroe County, Ohio, United States. The population was 71 at the 2020 census.

Its first post office opened in 1839. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 86 to 71 (-17%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

People over time

Antioch, census by census

01002001850190019502000Peak: 212

Peaked at 212 in 1900; 71 people lived here in 2020.

16 censuses, 1850–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Antioch’s Wikipedia page.

Timeline

Antioch, 1839 to 1988

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1839Post officeThe Antioch post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1900CensusPopulation peaks at 212
  5. 1960On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  6. 1988Post officeThe Antioch post office closes
By decade

Antioch, decade by decade

Today4 recent
Map of Monroe County Ohio Highlighting Antioch Village2015Map of Monroe County Ohio Highlighting Antioch VillageMapAntioch from Union Road2014Antioch from Union RoadAntioch and Community Volunteer Fire Department2014Antioch and Community Volunteer Fire DepartmentOHMap-doton-Antioch2004OHMap-doton-Antioch
On the map

Antioch on the map, 1960 to 2002

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Antioch. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Antioch on the 1960 USGS mapAntioch on the 1972 USGS mapAntioch on the 1994 USGS mapAntioch on the 2002 USGS map1960Antioch sheet · 1:24,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Antioch.

Places that used to be

Lost post offices and burying grounds

Antioch had its own post office from 1839 to 1988.

Antioch
1839–1988
18301930today
1cemetery inside Antioch
New Antioch

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Questions about Antioch’s history

What year was Antioch founded?

The Antioch post office opened in 1839, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Where this page comes from

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 Wikimedia Commons (4), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), 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.