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More historic than 12% of U.S. towns · #962 of 993 in Ohio. What drives it
Most of Berlin Township was built recently: 3% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 2007. Below: maps from 1950 on and old-book passages.
More historic than 12% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Berlin Township is more historic than 12% of U.S. towns, #962 of 993 in Ohio. Its National Register listings hold the grade up; its share of homes from before 1940 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 Berlin 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 Berlin Township’s history is told.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Berlin Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Berlin Township is one of the eighteen townships of Delaware County, Ohio, United States. The population at the 2020 census was 9,344.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 6,498 to 9,344 (+44%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Berlin Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
One of the early teachers in Berlin Township was an old Revolutionary soldier by the name of Pelatiah Morgan. He taught in the school house south of Cheshire, and had for his inseparable companion a wooden bottle of whiskey, which, tradition says, received fully as much attention as did his pupils. In 1826 this structure was replaced by a brick school house.
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road. Cynthia Sloper taught the next school after Miss Thompson, and Solomon Smith taught the first winter school. The first school taught in what is now Berlin Township was in an old vacant cabin in the settlement, by Julia Ripley, nee Calkins. The block-house erected in this settlement during the early Indian wars, was, when no longer required for defense, converted into a temple of
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road. Cynthia Sloper taught the next school after Miss Thompson, and Solomon Smith taught the first winter school. The first school taught in what is now Berlin Township was in an old vacant cabin in the settlement, by Julia Ripley, nee Calkins. The block-house erected in this settlement during the early Indian wars, was, when no longer required for defense, converted into a temple of
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Some of the earliest settlements in this county were made in Berlin Township. At that time, however, its metes and bounds were not those now shown on the map. From 1806 to 1820, Township 4, Range 18 of the United States Military lands, was divided between the townships of Liberty, Delaware and Berkshire. In 1806, Sections 1 and 4, together
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
2016Large, horse-drawn wagons, including one (right) that…
2016A horse-drawn Amish buggy heads up the hill to the la…
2016A horse-drawn wagon carries visitors into the pumpkin…
2016A horse-drawn wagon carries visitors into the pumpkin…
2016A horse-drawn wagon carries visitors into the pumpkin…
2016A horse-drawn wagon carries visitors into the pumpkin…
2016An Amish man tends to popcorn, prepared over an open …
2016Chickens, and what may be an interloping duck, at Her…
2016Decorative ears of dried corn at Hershberger's Farm a…
2016Cow, close up, at Hershberger's Farm and Bakery, a gr…
2016Fall display at Hershberger's Farm and Bakery, a grea…
2016Berlin Township hall on Cheshire Road
2016Berlin Township Fire Department
2015Map of Delaware County Ohio Highlighting Berlin Towns…MapEvery edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Berlin 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 Berlin Township.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Berlin Township is more historic than 12% of U.S. towns, #962 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.
3% of Berlin Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±1.8 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 2007.
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), the Library of Congress (11), 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.
