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History · Emerald Township

15% of Emerald Township’s homes were built before 1940

0on the National Register
15%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Emerald Township’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Emerald Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages4 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Emerald Township, and 3 old place names are still on the map.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Emerald Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
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Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

Four other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.

Reid
1857–1903
Emmett
1858–1905
Sunnyside
1881–1882
Toronto
1881–1881
18501940today
Hamlets and corners on the map
EmmettReidsRenollet
Gone or out of use
Buhlert SchoolschoolEmmett Post Officepost officeGoyings SchoolschoolPaulding Airport IncairportPowers SchoolschoolReid Post Officepost officeSchool Number 5schoolScott Schoolschool
5cemeteries and burying grounds inside Emerald Township
AnkneyKinzerRenolletTownshipUpthegrove

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

The story so far

Emerald Township, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Emerald Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Emerald Township is one of the twelve townships of Paulding County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 765 people in the township.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 789 to 765 (-3%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline

Emerald Township, 1857 to 1905

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1857Post officeThe Reid post office opens
  3. 1858Post officeThe Emmett post office opens
  4. 1881Post officeThe Sunnyside post office opens
  5. 1882Post officeThe Sunnyside post office closes
  6. 20th century
  7. 1903Post officeThe Reid post office closes
  8. 1905Post officeThe Emmett post office closes
By decade

No old photos in the archives yet

Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

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Famous people

Famous people close to Emerald Township

Nobody well known was born in Emerald Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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John S. SnookAmerican politician · b. 1862
Ned GarverAmerican baseball player · b. 1925
Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Jackson TownshipIts storyB−Crane TownshipIts storyCDelaware TownshipIts storyBAuglaize TownshipIts storyC−Paulding3 historic placesAPaulding Township3 historic placesnot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

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Where this page comes from

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 the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.