Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 68% of U.S. towns. What drives it
Its Register listing is the Bazore Mill. Below: maps from 1911 on and old-book passages.
The Deercreek Township post office opened in 1856, the earliest record of the town by name. Four smaller post offices, Yellow Bud Station (1855), Deercreek (1856) and Kinderhook (1859), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
More historic than 68% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Deercreek Township is more historic than 68% of U.S. towns. Its share of homes from before 1940 holds the grade up; its age pulls 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 Deercreek Township’s 5.8 sits above most of its state (66% of Ohio towns have fewer) while its 1 listings outnumber those of 51% 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.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Deercreek Township’s history is told.
Four 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).
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Deercreek 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 Deercreek Township.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Deercreek Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Its first post office opened in 1856. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 1,700 to 1,613 (-5%).
Passages that mention Deercreek Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Deercreek Township & Williamsport “Necumsia Siotati” — the little river through the great deer fields — flows swiftly over limestone and shale across southwestern Pickaway County. Deercreek Township is a deep alluvial plain surrounding the narrow valley where Deer Creek cuts into the bare bedrock of a buried ridge-top. The visible geography is the exact reverse of the geology beneath, Consequently, numerous springs arise through rock strata from deep mineral deposits.
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.
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The Deercreek Township post office opened in 1856, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
Deercreek Township is more historic than 68% 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.
One place: the Bazore Mill (listed 1978).
31% of Deercreek Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±7.5 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1964.
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 the National Register of Historic Places (1), 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.
