Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 58% of U.S. towns. What drives it
1 place in town is on the National Register. Below: maps from 1915 on and old-book passages.
More historic than 58% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Brush Creek Township is more historic than 58% of U.S. towns. 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 Brush Creek Township’s 7.1 sits above most of its state (69% 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 Brush Creek Township’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Brush Creek 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 Brush Creek Township.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Brush Creek Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Brush Creek Township is one of the sixteen townships of Scioto County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census counted 1,114 people in the township.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 1,199 to 1,114 (-7%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Brush Creek Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
October 5, 1864, J. W. Tracy had his horse shot from under him while enrolling for the draft in Brush Creek Township. It was supposed parties by the name of Ralstin did it. On Monday, October 8rd, a squad (twenty-five) of the 192nd Pennsylvania went out to Brush Creek Township to enforce the draft.
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.
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.
Old hamlets and crossroads still carry their names on the map.
Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Brush Creek Township is more historic than 58% 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.
11% of Brush Creek Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±9.6 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1977.
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), Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, 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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