Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 25% of U.S. towns. What drives it
Most of Fallsbury Township was built recently: 9% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1985. Below: maps from 1910 on and old-book passages.
More historic than 25% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Fallsbury Township is more historic than 25% 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 Fallsbury 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 Fallsbury 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).
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Fallsbury 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 Fallsbury Township.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Fallsbury Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Fallsbury Township is one of the 25 townships of Licking County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2020 census the population was 985.
Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 981 in 2010, 985 in 2020.
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Fallsbury Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Isaac Essex settled there in 1816. In the year 1818 David Bright located in the Northeastern part of this County, and was the first settler of Fallsbury Township, while in 1S31, Rena Knight built a cabin and opened a clearing near the head of Brushy Fork, at a point now in Liberty Township. Thus one locality after another became settled, and finally fully occupied in every section of our County.
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.
Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Nobody well known was born in Fallsbury Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Fallsbury Township is more historic than 25% 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.
9% of Fallsbury 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 1985.
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 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.
