Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 52% of U.S. towns. What drives it
Below: 1 old photo or paper, maps from 1911 on, and old-book passages.
More historic than 52% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Dover Township is more historic than 52% of U.S. towns. 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 Dover 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: our sources. 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 Dover Township’s history is told.
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).
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Dover 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 Dover Township.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Dover Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Dover Township is one of the twelve townships of Fulton County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 1,621 people in the township.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 1,578 to 1,621 (+3%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Dover Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Township was in York Township until 1838, when the township of Clinton was organized, “bv taking all of town seven north, range six east, and fractional town eight north, range six east of the Ohio survey, up to the said Fulton line.” Dover Township was the last of the twelve of Fulton county to be erected, was organized at Maumee on June 5, 1843, at a regular session of the county commissioners (of Lucas county). The new township was erected by taking from Chesterfield “all of the fractional township ten south,
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
Mortimer D. Hibbard had leading part in both township and county organization. The first election in Dover Township was held in his house; and he and his father ably furthered the project which eventually resulted in the erection of Fulton county. He was the first county auditor; and he surveyed and platted the village of Spring Hill, upon land bequeathed to his children, Oscar and Jason, by their granduncle, Judge Rice, who only spent a few years in Dover Township, being “troubled with a cough,” and going eventually to a warmer climate,
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.
In the archive1858 Platt Map
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyOne decade in the archive so far: the 1850s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
2016Life Flight ascending from a rural pasture temporary …
2016Dover Township Fulton County Ohio Snow Plow April 9 2…
2015L and 17
2015Map of Fulton County Ohio HighlightingMap
2014Fulton County 9-11 Memorial, Fulton County Fairground…
2013Remnant Old-growth Oak Tree
2012St. Vincent Medical Center's LifeFlight helicopter lo…
2010Turnpike overpass in
2007OHMap-doton-Tedrow
2006Dover Twp Fulton OHNobody well known was born in Dover Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Dover Township is more historic than 52% 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.
25% of Dover Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±10.9 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1976.
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 Wikimedia Commons (11), 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.
