Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 68% of U.S. towns. What drives it
Below: maps from 1905 on and old-book passages.
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, Eagle Township is more historic than 68% 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 Eagle 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 Eagle Township’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Eagle 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 Eagle Township.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Eagle Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Eagle Township is one of the seventeen townships of Hancock County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2020 census the population was 1,084.
Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 1,084 in 2010, 1,084 in 2020.
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Eagle Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
ner of Jacob Powell's farm; and a year or two afterward a school building was erected on Section 15. The township had now three' schoolhouses, and in a few years others made their appearance. These rude log structures soon gave way to frames, and to-day Eagle Township contains nine first class brick schoolhouses, not surpassed by those in any other township of the county, while the standing of the schools is excellent.
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
was undertaken nearly fifty years ago. On the 30th of September, 1836, Martin Hollabaugh, who had settled in the southeast corner of Eagle the year previous, laid out a village on the southeast quarter of Section 36, Eagle Township, and the southwest quarter of Section 31, Jackson Township, which he recorded as Martins Town. He opened a general store, which he carried on till his death in 1837. If he had lived, a small town might have sprung up here, but his death destroyed all such prospects, and Martins Town never emerged fi'om its shell.
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.
Nobody well known was born in Eagle Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Eagle 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.
48% of Eagle Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±28.4 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1957.
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 (2), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, 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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