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Austintown Township’s post office opened in 1872, and 2 of its places are on the National Register

More historic than 34% of U.S. towns · #807 of 993 in Ohio. What drives it

Most of Austintown Township was built recently: 5% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1971. Its Register listings are the Austintown Log House and the Judge William Shaw Anderson House. Below: maps from 1908 on and the census since 1970.

1872first post office
2on the National Register
5%homes built before 1940
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Quick answers

How Austintown Township began

When was Austintown Township founded?

1872

The Austintown Township post office opened in 1872, the earliest record of the town by name. Four smaller post offices, Orange (1813), Ohlstown (1841) and Austintown (1872), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

First census: 29,393 in 19702020 census: 36,049154 years

How historic is Austintown Township?

C

More historic than 34% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.

What drives the grade ↓
Founding year: the first Austintown Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓
History grade

What drives Austintown Township’s History grade

On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Austintown Township is more historic than 34% of U.S. towns, #807 of 993 in Ohio. Its National Register listings hold the grade up; its share of homes from before 1940 pulls it down.

C
HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Austintown Township’s overall grade.
Founding era1872, from the first post office: founded 1850–1899, an older era than 37% of U.S. townsC+Homes built before 19404.7% of homes (±1.3) · typical OH town 14.5% · U.S. 8.4%CNational Register2 listings, 0.6 per 10,000 residents · typical OH town 2.9 · U.S. 2.4B−
All U.S. towns we grade (21,289)Ahead of 34%
NewerOlder
Ohio towns of 2,500+ (993)Ahead of 19%

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 Austintown Township’s 0.6 sits near the middle of its state (47% of Ohio towns have fewer) while its 2 listings outnumber those of 60% of U.S. towns.

How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from C− to C+. The pre-1940 share (±1.3 points) is firm at this size. The founding year is the first post office, not a stated founding date.

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 →

What stands out about Austintown Township’s past

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

Lost villages4 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Austintown Township, and 14 old place names are still on the map.A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Austintown Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.On the map since 19084 editions of the USGS map, 1908 to 1970. Watch Austintown Township change.
★ What stands out · Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

Four other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.

Orange
1813–1872
Ohlstown
1841–1902
Austintown
1872–1917
West Austintown
1872–1929
18101920today
Hamlets and corners on the map
AustintownCamp ParkCentral Mobile Home ParkCornersburgFourmile RunOhltonOhltownPerkins CornersShively CornersSmith CornersStony RidgeTaylor CornersWest AustintownWickliffe
Gone or out of use
Austintown Post Officepost officeMollica AirportairportOhlstown Post Officepost officeRussell SchoolschoolWest Austintown Post Officepost office
6cemeteries and burying grounds inside Austintown Township
BrunsteterCotton PrivateDisciple ChurchFour Mile Run Christian ChurchGreen Haven Memorial GardensSmith Corners

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

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Start Austintown Township’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Austintown Township’s history is told.

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On the map

Austintown Township on the map, 1908 to 1970

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

Austintown Township on the 1908 USGS mapAustintown Township on the 1952 USGS mapAustintown Township on the 1963 USGS mapAustintown Township on the 1970 USGS map1908Warren 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 Austintown Township.

The story

How Austintown Township came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Austintown Township.

Read it all →

Austintown Township was founded in 1793 as township 2, range 3 of the Connecticut Western Reserve by purchase from the Connecticut Land Company. It was surveyed as a parcel of land 5 miles (8 km) on each side, as were other townships of the Connecticut Western Reserve. Austintown was named for Warren resident and Western Reserve judge Calvin Austin. In 1794, John McCollum of New Jersey became the first settler.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Austintown Township, 1813 to 1917

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1813Post officeThe Orange post office opens
  3. 1841Post officeThe Ohlstown post office opens
  4. 1872Post officeThe Orange post office closes
  5. 1872Post officeThe Austintown post office opens
  6. 20th century
  7. 1902Post officeThe Ohlstown post office closes
  8. 1908On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  9. 1917Post officeThe Austintown post office closes
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Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

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On the National Register

2 historic places in Austintown Township

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

places listed
2
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
2
each building in a district counts
first listed
1974
Austintown Log House
Austintown Log HouseJudge William Shaw Anderson House
Buildings

Architectural styles listings

Classical Revival1
Austintown Log HouseBuilding
Judge William Shaw Anderson HouseClassical Revival

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

People over time

Austintown Township, census by census

05,00010,00015,00020,00025,00030,00035,000198020002020Peak: 33,636

Between 29,393 and 33,636 people in every census since 1970.

6 censuses, 1970–2020.

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

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Austintown1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townYoungstown49 historic placesA+Canfield Township5 historic placesBWeathersfield Township4 historic placesBJackson TownshipIts storyB−Lordstown1 historic placeC+

Questions about Austintown Township’s history

What year was Austintown Township founded?

The Austintown Township post office opened in 1872, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

How does Austintown Township rank for history?

Austintown Township is more historic than 34% of U.S. towns, #807 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.

What is on the National Register in Austintown Township?

Two places: the Austintown Log House (listed 1974) and the Judge William Shaw Anderson House (1976).

How old are the homes in Austintown Township?

5% of Austintown Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±1.3 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1971.

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

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Sources

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).

From Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (2), Wikipedia, 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.