Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 90% of U.S. towns. What drives it
Its Register listing is the Buchwalter House-Applethorpe Farm. Below: maps from 1906 on and old-book passages.
More historic than 90% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Colerain Township is more historic than 90% of U.S. towns. All 2 inputs are above most U.S. towns; its share of homes from before 1940 ranks highest and its National Register listings lowest.
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 Colerain Township’s 15.5 sits above most of its state (79% of Ohio towns have fewer) while its 3 historic buildings outnumber those of 65% of U.S. towns.
Founding year: our sources. 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 Colerain Township’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Colerain 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 Colerain Township.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Colerain Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Colerain Township is one of the sixteen townships of Ross County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 2,017 people in the township.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 2,148 to 2,017 (-6%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Colerain Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
His birth occurred in Colerain Township of Ross County, June 1, 1852. His father was John C. Hinton, who was born June 10, 1824, in Colerain Township and in the log cabin which his grandfather had erected on first coming to Ross County. The grandfather of Elias N.
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
1796. He was twenty years of age when he came with his family to Ohio in 1816. As was the custom at that time in the absence of railroads or other means of transportation, the family made the trip entirely with wagons and teams. George Hickle secured land in Colerain Township, and while clearing and improving also followed his trade of shoemaker. There was no machinery for the making of boots and shoes at that time, and they were made entirely by honest cobbling, and the shoemakers often went from house to house in a pioneer community, making footwear
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.
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 Colerain Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Another post office, Feightner, 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.
Colerain Township is more historic than 90% of U.S. towns. 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.
One place: the Buchwalter House-Applethorpe Farm (listed 1983).
28% of Colerain Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±13.0 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1990.
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 Wikimedia Commons (7), the National Register of Historic Places (1), 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.
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