Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 55% of U.S. towns · #598 of 993 in Ohio. What drives it
Below: maps from 1901 on and old-book passages.
The Carlisle Township post office opened in 1826, the earliest record of the town by name. Three smaller post offices, Carlisle (1826), La Porte (1838) and Carlisle (1847), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
More historic than 55% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Carlisle Township is more historic than 55% of U.S. towns, #598 of 993 in Ohio. Its age holds the grade up; its National Register listings pull 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 Carlisle 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: the first post office (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 Carlisle Township’s history is told.
Three 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).
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Carlisle 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 Carlisle Township.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Carlisle Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Carlisle Township is one of the eighteen townships of Lorain County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2020 census the population was 7,124.
Its first post office opened in 1826. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 7,500 to 7,124 (-5%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Carlisle Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
The Lorain County Infirmary is a large modern building erected and developed for the care of the poor, its founding and expansion covering a period of fifty years. The institution, with its grounds of over a quarter section, is located in Carlisle Township, two miles west of Elyria. The infirmary was founded under tiie following circumstances: On March 17, 1866, Tabor Wood, George Clifton and Reuben Eddy, county conunissioners, purchased of Joseph Swift, Jr., 170 acres of land in Carlisle Township for an infirmary farm, for which they paid $10,500.
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.
Nobody well known was born in Carlisle Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The Carlisle Township post office opened in 1826, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
Carlisle Township is more historic than 55% of U.S. towns, #598 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.
15% of Carlisle Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±5.4 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1965.
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 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.
