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Red Brick Tavern in LafayettePhoto: Nyttend · Public domain
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History · Deer Creek Township

29% of Deer Creek Township’s homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the Red Brick Tavern. Below: maps from 1907 on.

1on the National Register
29%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Deer Creek Township’s past

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

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Deer Creek Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Deer Creek Township, and 2 old place names are still on the map.On the map since 19073 editions of the USGS map, 1907 to 1973. Watch Deer Creek Township change.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Deer Creek Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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Places that used to be

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

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

Lawrenceville
1825–1836
Lafayette
1836–1905
18201920today
Hamlets and corners on the map
CartersLafayette
Gone or out of use
Dunn SchoolschoolGlade SchoolschoolLafayette Post Officepost office
3cemeteries and burying grounds inside Deer Creek Township
GarrettUpper Gwynne FarmWright

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

On the map

Deer Creek Township on the map, 1907 to 1973

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

Deer Creek Township on the 1907 USGS mapDeer Creek Township on the 1961 USGS mapDeer Creek Township on the 1973 USGS map1907London 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 Deer Creek Township.

The story so far

Deer Creek Township, in brief

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

Deer Creek Township is one of the fourteen townships of Madison County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 967 people in the township.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 933 to 967 (+4%).

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

Timeline

Deer Creek Township, 1825 to 1907

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1825Post officeThe Lawrenceville post office opens
  3. 1836Post officeThe Lawrenceville post office closes
  4. 1836Post officeThe Lafayette post office opens
  5. 20th century
  6. 1905Post officeThe Lafayette post office closes
  7. 1907On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Deer Creek Township, decade by decade

Today1 recent
Map of Madison County Ohio Highlighting Deer Creek Township2015Map of Madison County Ohio Highlighting Deer Creek To…Map
On the National Register

1 historic place in Deer 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
1975
Red Brick Tavern
Red Brick Tavern
Buildings

Architectural styles listings

Federal1
Red Brick TavernFederal

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

Famous people

Famous people close to Deer Creek Township

Nobody well known was born in Deer Creek Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Charles W. FairbanksAmerican politician; Vice President of the Unit… · b. 1852
William B. SaxbeAmerican politician · b. 1916
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James DillionAthletics competitor · b. 1929
David K. WatsonAmerican politician · b. 1849
Clyde TingleyAmerican politician · b. 1882
De Witt C. BadgerAmerican politician · b. 1858
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

London4 historic placesAUnion TownshipIts storyCMonroe TownshipIts storyC+Jefferson TownshipIts storyCSomerford Township1 historic placeC+

Questions about Deer Creek Township’s history

What is on the National Register in Deer Creek Township?

One place: the Red Brick Tavern (listed 1975).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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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). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikimedia Commons (1), the National Register of Historic Places (1), 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.