Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Most of Corwin was built recently: 3% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 2003. Below: 1 old photo or paper, maps from 1913 on, and the census since 1870.
The Corwin post office opened in 1898, the earliest record of the town by name.
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 Corwin’s history is told.
Lost half of its people between 1960 and 1990, then more than doubled.
15 censuses, 1870–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Corwin’s Wikipedia page.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Corwin. 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 Corwin.
From Wikipedia’s history of Corwin.
Corwin began as a depot on the Little Miami Railroad. A post office called Corwin was established in 1898, and remained in operation until 1918. The village is named for Thomas Corwin, 15th Governor of Ohio.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention Corwin, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Before 1819, the channel of the river on the road to Corwin was not as now, but where the bridge now is was in the bend of a horseshoe, the channel above and below the bridge having been made since. The crossing of the river was between High and Main streets, in Waynesville. When the water was high, there was a ferry used, and when low, a ford. About 1812, an effort was made to build a bridge at the ford. The abutments were raised and a superstructure was placed on trestles. A freshet in the river swept out the work and no further effort was made to build a bridge at that place. In 1817, a bridge was
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
ident resided in the adjoining county of Hamilton. The bitter contest between the opposing parties began early in the spring, and was continued with increasing excitement until the Presidential election. Harrison and Tyler had been nominated at Harrisburg December 0, 1839. Corwin was nominated for Governor at a great mass meeting at Columbus, February 22, 1840. The public mind was soon put in commotion by mass meetings and mass conventions, some of which were of enormous size. A very large mass convention of the Whigs of the Fourth Congressional District, composed of the counties of Warren, Clin-
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 SurveyNo then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Corwin’s page.
Retake this view · +15Nobody well known was born in Corwin itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Corwin had its own post office from 1898 to 1918.
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.
The Corwin post office opened in 1898, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
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 (3), the Library of Congress (1), Wikidata (1), 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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