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More historic than 4% of U.S. towns · #989 of 993 in Ohio. What drives it
Most of Beavercreek was built recently: 2% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1979. Below: maps from 1913 on and the census since 1980.
Beavercreek dates its founding to 1980 (Wikidata). The census first counted it in 1980.
More historic than 4% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Beavercreek is more historic than 4% of U.S. towns, #989 of 993 in Ohio. Its National Register listings hold the grade up; its age pulls 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 Beavercreek’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: Wikidata (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 →
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 Beavercreek’s history is told.
Another post office, Zimmerman, 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).
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Beavercreek. 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 Beavercreek.
From Wikipedia’s history of Beavercreek.
The Beavercreek area was settled in the early 1800s. A part of Beavercreek Township was incorporated and became the city of Beavercreek in February 1980.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention Beavercreek, cut from the printed page as they were published.
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I first settled on Beavercreek, about six miles from the Old Chillicothe, in what is now the bounds of (jreene county, and there was no settlement at that time above Davis' mill, above Beavercreek, except three families on the Little ]\Iiami, in the limits of what is now Greene county, and the settlement on what I then lived on Beavercreek,
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son. John Harner. pursued his eilucation in Uath township, and for a time resided in that locality, but after his marriage remo\ed to Beavercreek township, where he spent several years. He afterward resided for several years near the village of Bellbrook, Ohio, and the last few years of his life were passed in Beavercreek township.
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and of the establishment of himself and family here in 1800, two or three years before Ohio's admission to statehood and Greene county's formal organization. Jacob Coy was thus one of the first settlers of what later came to be organized as Beavercreek township. It is said that the first school conducted in that township was opened in a little log building erected on the Jacob Coy farm and that in that same place there was conducted the first formal religious services held thereabout, the present congregation of the Reformed church in that neighborhood being the outgrowth of those humble
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farm in Beavercreek township, this county, where they both died of pneumonia in February, 1907, and were buried in a single grave in the Beavercreek cemetery.
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 Survey
Born hereShauna S. Roberts is born here
Born hereJerome Tillman is born hereWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Between 31,589 and 46,549 people in every census since 1980.
5 censuses, 1980–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Beavercreek’s Wikipedia page.
Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
In 1980, according to Wikidata. Beavercreek’s post office opened in 1850, and the census of 1980 counted 31,589 people here.
Beavercreek is more historic than 4% of U.S. towns, #989 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.
2% of Beavercreek’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1979.
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 Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, 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.
