Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Its Register listing is the Helmick Mill Covered Bridge. Below: old-book passages.
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 Deerfield Township’s history is told.
Two 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).
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Deerfield Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Deerfield Township is one of the fourteen townships of Morgan County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 839 people in the township.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 927 to 839 (-9%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Deerfield Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Isaac Whitaker was one of the early pioneers of Deerfield Township. He was born in Maryland in 1789, and in 1803 came to Zanesville, Ohio. He served his country as a soldier in the war of 1812, and in 1816 came to Morgan County with his family of wife and one child and settled in Deerfield Township.
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.
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.
Nobody well known was born in Deerfield Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
One place: the Helmick Mill Covered Bridge (listed 1999).
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 (2), Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (1), 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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