Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 82% of U.S. towns. What drives it
Its Register listings are the South Salem Covered Bridge. Below: maps from 1917 on and old-book passages.
More historic than 82% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Buckskin Township is more historic than 82% of U.S. towns. All 2 inputs are above most U.S. towns; its share of homes from before 1940 ranks highest and its National Register listings lowest.
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 Buckskin Township’s 11.1 sits above most of its state (75% of Ohio towns have fewer) while its 2 listings outnumber those of 60% 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 Buckskin Township’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Buckskin 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 Buckskin Township.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Buckskin Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Buckskin Township is one of the sixteen townships of Ross County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 2,047 people in the township.
Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 2,039 in 2010, 2,047 in 2020.
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Buckskin Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
On returning to his native county, Mr. Truitt took up farming, and er torsos i cemiatrica tai, Lbs) Aitrtouttdanehier’or oan and Eliza Morton. Mrs. Truitt was born and reared in Buckskin Township. After their marriage they located on a rented farm in Concord Township, remained there a year and then spent a year in the West, and on returning to Ross County settled in Buckskin Township. They also lived in Paint Township, but most of their active years were spent in Buckskin Township. For the past six years Mr. Truitt has had his home in South
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 SurveyWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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.
Nobody well known was born in Buckskin Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Buckskin Township is more historic than 82% 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.
2 listings: 1 structure.
22% of Buckskin Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±10.0 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 the National Register of Historic Places (1), 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.
