Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 55% of U.S. towns. What drives it
Below: maps from 1914 on and old-book passages.
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, Concord Township is more historic than 55% of U.S. towns. Its share of homes from before 1940 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 Concord 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: 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.
Six 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).
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Concord Township’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Concord 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 Concord Township.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Concord Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Concord Township is one of the twelve townships of Champaign County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census reported 1,387 people living in the township.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 1,422 to 1,387 (-2%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Concord Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Millerstown in 1838, where Joseph completed his trade in 1841, and then for two years worked at carpentering and cabinetmaking. In 1843, he resumed his former trade, which he followed at Millerstown till 1870, when he moved on his farm in Sec. 33, of Concord Township, and has since been engaged at various kinds of work, clearing, building, and working some at his trade. He was Postmaster at Millerstown about twenty years, was Treasurer of Johnson Township several terms, has been Trustee of Concord Township three or four years, and was elected Justice of the Peace last spring for his third term. In August of 1845, he married Polly Houser, by whom he had
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
Concord Township has within its limits two other Methodist Episcopal Churches. Neer Chapel, situated in the northwest corner of the township, was named for the Rev. Samuel Neer, a deceased minister of the Cincinnati Conference, and a former schoolmate of the writer. The house was dedicated on the 15th of August, 1858, just one year after the death of the man for whom it was named. Rev. D. Warnock preached on the above occasion. The other church is that of North ville, erected and dedicated about the same year as that of Neer Chapel. These are the only church buildings ever erected in the town-
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 SurveyEach neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Concord Township is more historic than 55% 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.
27% of Concord Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±19.2 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1985.
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 (2), Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, 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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