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Photo: SilentMatt Psychedelic · CC BY-SA 4.0More historic than 24% of U.S. towns · #883 of 993 in Ohio. What drives it
Most of Eaton Township was built recently: 9% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1965. Below: 1 old photo or paper, maps from 1901 on, and old-book passages.
More historic than 24% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Eaton Township is more historic than 24% of U.S. towns, #883 of 993 in Ohio. 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 Eaton 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 Eaton Township’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Eaton 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 Eaton Township.
Another post office, North Eaton, 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 Eaton Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Eaton Township is one of the eighteen townships of Lorain County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 5,828.
Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 5,750 in 2010, 5,828 in 2020.
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Eaton Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Eaton Township Settled Eaton Township was settled, in the fall of 1810, by mend)ers of the colony who came from "Waterljury, Connecticut, as associates of those who located in what is now Ridgeville Township. Before its incorpoi'ation by name, it was designated on the maps as town 5, range 16, and was tiie property originally of Caleb Atwater, Turhand Kirtland, llolbrook and ten others. Tract 1, gore 4, range 11, was almexed to it, to bring it up to full value. It was originally called llolbrook, and
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.
Born hereJames Bede is born here
Born hereGrant M. Hudson is born here
Born hereC. K. Fauver is born here
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyNo then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Eaton Township’s page.
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Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Eaton Township is more historic than 24% of U.S. towns, #883 of 993 in Ohio. 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.
9% of Eaton Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±4.1 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1965.
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 (3), the Library of Congress (1), Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, 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.
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