Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
1 place in town is on the National Register. 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 Coal Township’s history is told.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Coal Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Coal Township is one of the fourteen townships of Perry County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 939 people in the township.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 1,042 to 939 (-10%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Coal Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Coal Township is the youngest in the county. It was organized in 1872 by striking ot? thirteen sections from Saltlick. It derives its name from the abundance of the mineral of that name to be found in the hills.
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.
Nobody well known was born in Coal Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Another post office, Stratville, 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).
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
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 Wikimedia Commons (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.
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