Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 93% of U.S. towns. What drives it
Its Register listing is the Swartz Covered Bridge. Below: maps from 1906 on and old-book passages.
More historic than 93% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Antrim Township is more historic than 93% of U.S. towns. All 2 inputs are above most U.S. towns; its share of homes from before 1940 ranks highest and its National Register listings lowest.
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 Antrim Township’s 8.5 sits above most of its state (72% of Ohio towns have fewer) while its 1 listings outnumber those of 51% 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 Antrim Township’s history is told.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Antrim Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Antrim Township is one of the thirteen townships of Wyandot County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 1,155 people in the township.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 1,243 to 1,155 (-7%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Antrim 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 Antrim Township.
Passages that mention Antrim Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
ginian, who emigrated to this county and settled in Antrim Township in 1822, and who a few years later became owner of 160 acres of land in Marseilles Township, Section 17, also laid out a small town in his section, which he named Marseilles. In 1845, C. Merriman, owning a small strip of land lying between and adjoining "Burlington" and "Marseilles," a little later laid out another addition, and the entire village soon became the Marseilles Village of to day, and the several parts, or divisions, were known as:
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.
Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
The 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 Antrim Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Another post office, Wyandot, 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).
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Antrim Township is more historic than 93% 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 Swartz Covered Bridge (listed 1976).
58% of Antrim Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±11.7 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1938.
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 Wikidata (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.
