Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 59% of U.S. towns · #545 of 993 in Ohio. What drives it
Below: maps from 1913 on and old-book passages.
More historic than 59% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Auglaize Township is more historic than 59% of U.S. towns, #545 of 993 in Ohio. Its share of homes from before 1940 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 Auglaize 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: 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.
Five 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).
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Auglaize Township’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Auglaize 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 Auglaize Township.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Auglaize Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Auglaize Township is one of the twelve townships of Allen County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 2,757 people in the township.
Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 2,783 in 2010, 2,757 in 2020.
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Auglaize Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
and south and east of Jackson and Perry Townships, was established by order of the Commissioners of Allen County, March 5, 1832. In December of that year the township of Scioto was disestablished and attached to Auglaize Township for judicial purposes. Until the establishment of Perry Township in December, 1833, the twelve eastern sections of that township formed a portion of Auglaize Township. Since that time what is known as original Township 4 south, Range 8 east, constitutes this division of the county. The villages known as Westminster, West
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and south and east of Jackson and Perry Townships, was established by order of tl^e Commissioners of Allen County, March 5, 1832. In December of that year the township of Scioto was disestablished and attached to Auglaize Township for judicial purposes. Until the establishment of Perry Township in December, 1833, the twelve eastern sections of that township formed a portion of Auglaize Township. Since that time what is known as original Township 4 south, Range 8 east, constitutes this division of the county. The villagee known as Westminster, West
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mill was erected in the vicinity in 1834. The first grist-mill in Shawnee Township was erected by Ashel Tompkins and Daniel Hindel m the winter of 1834-85. This mill stood on Hog Creek, one half mile below the village of Lima. In Auglaize Township a grist-mill was erected at an early day. A corn-cracker was erected on Little Biley Creek by Joseph Deford, while Isaac Parker operated a horse-power mill at Bockford.
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mill was erected in the vicinity in 1834. The first grist-mill in Shawnee Township was erected by Ashel Tompkins and Daniel Hindel 1n the winter of 1834-85. This mill stood on Hog Creek, one half mile below the village of Lima. In Auglaize Township a grist-mill was erected at an early day. A corn-cracker was erected on Little Riley Creek by Joseph Deford, while Isaac Parker operated a horse-power mill at Rockford.
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 Auglaize Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Auglaize Township is more historic than 59% of U.S. towns, #545 of 993 in Ohio. 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.
32% of Auglaize Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±9.3 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1970.
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 (3), 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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