Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 37% of U.S. towns · #782 of 993 in Ohio. What drives it
Below: maps from 1903 on and old-book passages.
The Coventry Township post office opened in 1884, the earliest record of the town by name. Three smaller post offices, Coventry (1884), Reservoir (1892) and Portage Lakes (1923), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
More historic than 37% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Coventry Township is more historic than 37% of U.S. towns, #782 of 993 in Ohio. 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 Coventry 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: the first post office (other dates in Quick answers). 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.
Three 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 Coventry Township’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Coventry 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 Coventry Township.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Coventry Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Coventry Township is one of the nine townships of Summit County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 10,238 people in the township.
Its first post office opened in 1884. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 10,945 to 10,238 (-6%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Coventry Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
in the southern jjart of this county are Andi'ew, who settled near the village of Manchester, and Jac Harter, who lives now in Coventry Township. These Harters are first cousins. Andrew came to Franklin Township in 1814. But John Harter, the father of Jac, moved to Stark Co. previoiis to the war of 1812. The Harter family to which Andrew
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
Coventry Township lies to the north of Franklin and Green and just outside of the City of Akron. It is also the southern line of the Western Reserve. Its physical features are unusual in that it is dotted by numerous lakes and in early days was traversed by a considerable stream, the Tuscarawas. In addition to this, about 1840, the Reservoir
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 SurveyWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Nobody well known was born in Coventry Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The Coventry Township post office opened in 1884, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
Coventry Township is more historic than 37% of U.S. towns, #782 of 993 in Ohio. 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.
18% of Coventry Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±4.6 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1959.
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 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.
