Christiansburg was platted in 1817, and named after Christiansburg, Virginia, the native home of a first settler. A post office called Christiansburg has been in operation since 1833. However, this post office (ZIP code 45389) is a PO Box-only office; street delivery is not offered to residents who live in the village limits, and mail can only be delivered to a household's PO Box. Christiansburg was incorporated in 1835.
Peaked at 788 in 1960; 505 people lived here in 2020.
11 censuses, 1920–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Christiansburg’s Wikipedia page.
From the old history books
What they wrote about Christiansburg, 1881–1902
Passages that mention Christiansburg, cut from the printed page as they were published.
A centennial biographical history of Champaign county, Ohio ..1902 · page 655Read the page →
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Captain George McCrea, was horn in a log cabin in the village of Christiansburg. July 17, 1836, and was early inured to the labors ol held and meadow, his educational advantages having been secured in the primitive schools then in' vogue. He remained at home until his enlistment for the Civil war, in August, 1862, entering Company E, One Hundred and Thirteenth ( Mho Volunteer Infantry, being mustered in as a private. 1 [is regimem was a part of the Army of the Cumberland, and with it he took part in the many hotly contested battles in which that gallant army en-
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The history of Champaign county, Ohio, containing a history of the county1881 · page 436Read the page →
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by him some time before. It grew rather slowly, having in 1820 only six houses, or rather log huts, used as houses. The first frame house in the town was built ten years afterward by William McCrea, and used by him for a grocery store. The towm was then called Christiansburg, in memory of the town in Virginia from which the Howells emigrated. The post office still retains the name of Christiansburg, although the name of the town was changed to Addison, in 1842.
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Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Timeline
Christiansburg, 1808 to 1960
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Christiansburg. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1914Troy sheet · 1:62,500
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Christiansburg.
Famous people
Famous people close to Christiansburg
Nobody well known was born in Christiansburg itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
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 Wikimedia Commons (6), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), 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.
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