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History · Cross Creek Township

Cross Creek Township’s post office opened in 1854, and 1 of its places is on the National Register

More historic than 39% of U.S. towns · #758 of 993 in Ohio. What drives it

Most of Cross Creek Township was built recently: 8% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1967. Its Register listing is the Bantam Ridge School. Below: maps from 1904 on.

1854first post office
1on the National Register
8%homes built before 1940
1famous people
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Quick answers

How Cross Creek Township began

When was Cross Creek Township founded?

1854

The Cross Creek Township post office opened in 1854, the earliest record of the town by name. Five smaller post offices, Cross Creek (1854), Holmes Hill (1855) and Reeds Mills (1879), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 7,870172 years

How historic is Cross Creek Township?

C+

More historic than 39% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.

What drives the grade ↓
Founding year: the first Cross Creek Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).
History grade

What drives Cross Creek Township’s History grade

On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Cross Creek Township is more historic than 39% of U.S. towns, #758 of 993 in Ohio. Its National Register listings hold the grade up; its age pulls it down.

C+
HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Cross Creek Township’s overall grade.
Founding era1854, from the first post office: founded 1850–1899, an older era than 37% of U.S. townsC+Homes built before 19408.3% of homes (±3.1) · typical OH town 14.5% · U.S. 8.4%C+National Register1 listing, 1.3 per 10,000 residents · typical OH town 2.9 · U.S. 2.4B−
All U.S. towns we grade (21,289)Ahead of 39%
NewerOlder
Ohio towns of 2,500+ (993)Ahead of 24%

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 Cross Creek Township’s 1.3 sits near the middle of its state (50% of Ohio towns have fewer) while its 1 listings outnumber those of 51% of U.S. towns.

How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from C to C+. The pre-1940 share is a Census survey estimate (±3.1 points). The founding year is the first post office, not a stated founding date.

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 →

What stands out about Cross Creek Township’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

Lost villages5 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Cross Creek Township, and 14 old place names are still on the map.A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Cross Creek Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.On the map since 19047 editions of the USGS map, 1904 to 1985. Watch Cross Creek Township change.
★ What stands out · Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

Five other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.

Cross Creek
1854–1867
Holmes Hill
1855–1883
Reeds Mills
1879–1933
Gould
1881–1884
Fernwood
1883–1929
18501940today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Brentwood EstatesCanellas ParkDogtownFellsFernwoodForest ViewGouldGreen AcresKolmontReeds MillStuart ManorSunshine ParkSwickards AdditionValley Glen
Gone or out of use
Fernwood Post Officepost officeGeorges Run SchoolschoolGould Post Officepost officeReeds Mills Post Officepost office
3cemeteries and burying grounds inside Cross Creek Township
Cross Creek PresbyterianLongSaint James

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

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Start Cross Creek Township’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Cross Creek Township’s history is told.

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On the map

Cross Creek Township on the map, 1904 to 1985

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Cross Creek Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Cross Creek Township on the 1904 USGS mapCross Creek Township on the 1935 USGS mapCross Creek Township on the 1942 USGS mapCross Creek Township on the 1958 USGS mapCross Creek Township on the 1968 USGS mapCross Creek Township on the 1978 USGS mapCross Creek Township on the 1985 USGS map1904Steubenville sheet · 1:62,500

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Cross Creek Township.

The story so far

Cross Creek Township, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Cross Creek Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Cross Creek Township is one of the fourteen townships of Jefferson County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census recorded 7,870 people in the township.

Its first post office opened in 1854. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 8,348 to 7,870 (-6%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline

Cross Creek Township, 1821 to 1933

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1821Born hereWilliam Harvey Gibson is born here
  3. 1854Post officeThe Cross Creek post office opens
  4. 1855Post officeThe Holmes Hill post office opens
  5. 1867Post officeThe Cross Creek post office closes
  6. 1879Post officeThe Reeds Mills post office opens
  7. 1883Post officeThe Holmes Hill post office closes
  8. 20th century
  9. 1904On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  10. 1933Post officeThe Reeds Mills post office closes
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No old photos in the archives yet

Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

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On the National Register

1 historic place in Cross Creek Township

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
1
each building in a district counts
first listed
1981
Bantam Ridge School
Bantam Ridge School
Buildings
Bantam Ridge SchoolBuilding

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Steubenville9 historic placesAIsland Creek Township3 historic placesA−WintersvilleIts storyB−Wayne TownshipIts storyCWells TownshipIts storyB−Steubenville Township4 historic placesANew AlexandriaIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Cross Creek Township’s history

What year was Cross Creek Township founded?

The Cross Creek Township post office opened in 1854, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

How does Cross Creek Township rank for history?

Cross Creek Township is more historic than 39% of U.S. towns, #758 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.

What is on the National Register in Cross Creek Township?

One place: the Bantam Ridge School (listed 1981).

How old are the homes in Cross Creek Township?

8% of Cross Creek Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±3.1 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1967.

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Sources

Where this page comes from

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 the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.