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Photo: Nyttend · Public domainMore historic than 68% of U.S. towns. What drives it
Below: 2 old photos and papers, maps from 1908 on, and the census since 1870.
Farmersville dates its founding to 1832 (Wikipedia’s history). The census first counted it in 1870.
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, Farmersville 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 Farmersville’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: Wikipedia (other dates in Quick answers). 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 Farmersville’s history is told.
Lost a third of its people between 1880 and 1910, then more than doubled.
16 censuses, 1870–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Farmersville’s Wikipedia page.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Farmersville. 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 Farmersville.
From Wikipedia’s history of Farmersville.
Farmersville was platted in 1832, and named from its location in a farming district. The village was incorporated in 1849. A post office was established at Farmersville in 1833, and remained in operation until after 2000.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention Farmersville, cut from the printed page as they were published.
There are four churches in the town of Farmersville. The United Brethren Church was organized in 1831, and held meetings in the houses of Jacob Crider and John Reel until 1841, when the society bought Digitized by Google
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
of any township in the county. There are but three of them, viz., Fir mi ville, one and a half miles south of the center of the township, in Section and Johnsville and New Lebanon, both on the extreme northern border, these, the largest is Farmersville. It was laid out by Oliver Dalrymple, Am 30, 1832, and so named on account of his selling the lots to farmers. He been keeping a store there for some years, before having himself built the house in 1822, which is still standing and occupied by his widow. The c dren went to school in a little schoolhouse, where Jacob Aulbach now lives
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.
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 Farmersville’s page.
Retake this view · +15Farmersville had its own post office from 1833 to 1963.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
In 1832, according to Wikipedia’s history of the town. Farmersville’s post office opened in 1833, and the census of 1870 counted 312 people here.
Farmersville 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.
29% of Farmersville’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±8.0 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1964.
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 (5), the Library of Congress (2), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), 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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