Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Its Register listing is the Miner's Supply Store. Below: 4 old photos and papers, maps from 1913 on, and the census since 1890.
The Coalton post office opened in 1879, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Eurekaville (1876), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
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 Coalton’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Coalton. 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 Coalton.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Coalton yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Coalton is a village in Jackson County, Ohio, United States. The population was 445 at the 2020 census. The village derives its name from Coal Township.
Its first post office opened in 1879. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 479 to 445 (-7%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Coalton, cut from the printed page as they were published.
of the inhabitants being single and transients. The first teacher we hear of w-as William Wilds, who taught a school about 1820 in a log house built for the purpose on the Adam Sell place, near Coalton. James H. Darling, who was the last survivor of the pupils of that school, furnished me the following particulars concerning it: The school house was a low log building, with puncheon floor, a large fireplace at one end and a wiudow on each side. The windows had been constructed by cutting out the lower half of
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.
Born hereJoseph McGhee is born here
Born herePat Duncan is born here
Born hereIsham Jones is born here
Born hereJim Rhodes is born here
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
In the archiveCoalton Elementary 1991One decade in the archive so far: the 1990s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
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.
Between 445 and 1,625 people in every census since 1890.
14 censuses, 1890–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Coalton’s Wikipedia page.
Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.
Coalton’s post office has been open since 1879. Another post office, Eurekaville, 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 Coalton post office opened in 1879, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
One place: the Miner's Supply Store (listed 1977).
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 (12), Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, 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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