Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Its Register listings are the Sutton House and the Eagle Creek Covered Bridge. Below: old-book passages.
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 Byrd Township’s history is told.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Byrd Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Byrd Township is one of the sixteen townships of Brown County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 733 people in the township.
Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 739 in 2010, 733 in 2020.
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Two 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).
Passages that mention Byrd Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
In pursuance of the above notice, a petition was presented to the Commissioners of Brown County, at their June meeting, praying for the establishment of a new township, as described in the notice. Whereupon, a survey was granted by the Commissioners, and, when Byrd Township was surveyed, it was found to contain territory sufficient for the constitutional limits of two townships, so that no territory was required from any of the three townships of Jackson, Franklin or Pleasant. So the Commissioners granted the new township, which consisted merely of a portion of Byrd Township, and gave it the
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In pursuance of the above notice, a petition was presented to the Commissioners of Brown County, at their June meeting, praying for the establishment of a new township, as described in the notice. Whereupon, a survey was granted by the Commissioners, and, when Byrd Township was surveyed, it was found to contain territory sufficient for the constitutional limits of two townshıps, so that no territory was required from any of the three townships of Jackson, Franklin or Pleasant. So the Commissioners granted the new township, which consisted merely of a portion of Byrd Township, and gave it the
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THE township bearing the above name is situated in the southeastern corner of the county and is bounded on the north by Byrd Township, on the east by Adams County, on the south by the Ohio River and on the west by Union Township. It was organized prior to the erection of Brown County, and was named in honor of Samuel Huntington, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Its greatest length is from the Ohio River at the line between Adam3 and Brown Counties north to the Byrd Township line a distance of eight and three-eighth miles; the greatest width is about five and
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.
Weddings 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.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Two places: the Sutton House (listed 1977) and the Eagle Creek Covered Bridge (1975).
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). How TownRatings grades history →
From Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (2), 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.
