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History · Fearing Township

Fearing Township’s post office opened in 1828, and 12% of its homes were built before 1940

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How Fearing Township began

When was Fearing Township founded?

1828

The Fearing Township post office opened in 1828, the earliest record of the town by name. Three smaller post offices, Fearing (1828), Caywood (1871) and Stanleyville (1878), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 858198 years
Founding year: the first Fearing Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Fearing 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 Fearing Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages3 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Fearing Township, and 2 old place names are still on the map.Deep rootsA post office since 1828: 198 years of Fearing Township.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Fearing Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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Places that used to be

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

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

Fearing
1828–1878
Caywood
1871–1922
Stanleyville
1878–1933
18201920today
Hamlets and corners on the map
CaywoodStanleyville
Gone or out of use
Stanleyville Elementary Schoolschool
5cemeteries and burying grounds inside Fearing Township
Berg ChurchChapmanFlandersLynch ChurchSaint Jacobs

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

Timeline

Fearing Township, 1828 to 1933

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1828Post officeThe Fearing post office opens
  3. 1871Post officeThe Caywood post office opens
  4. 1878Post officeThe Fearing post office closes
  5. 1878Post officeThe Stanleyville post office opens
  6. 20th century
  7. 1922Post officeThe Caywood post office closes
  8. 1933Post officeThe Stanleyville post office closes
The story so far

Fearing Township, in brief

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

Fearing Township is one of the twenty-two townships of Washington County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 858 people in the township.

Its first post office opened in 1828. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 891 to 858 (-4%).

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

By decade

Fearing Township, decade by decade

Today2 recent
Duck Creek valley near Whipple2017Duck Creek valley near WhippleMap of Washington County Ohio Highlighting2015Map of Washington County Ohio HighlightingMap
Famous people

Famous people close to Fearing Township

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

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Charles G. DawesVice president of the United States from 1925 t… · b. 1865
Don Carlos BuellAmerican Union Army General · b. 1818
Hobart BosworthAmerican film actor, director, writer, and prod… · b. 1867
Dewey F. BartlettAmerican politician · b. 1919
Eliakim Hastings MooreAmerican mathematician · b. 1862
Cleveland Monroe BaileyAmerican politician · b. 1886
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Marietta14 historic placesA+Muskingum Township2 historic placesBLawrence Township2 historic placesnot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townSalem TownshipIts storyBMarietta TownshipIts storyB−

Questions about Fearing Township’s history

What year was Fearing Township founded?

The Fearing Township post office opened in 1828, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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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 Wikimedia Commons (2), 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.