Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 50% of U.S. towns · #656 of 993 in Ohio. What drives it
Below: maps from 1903 on and old-book passages.
The Granger Township post office opened in 1816, the earliest record of the town by name. Three smaller post offices, Granger (1816), Coddingville (1850) and Remson's Corners (1855), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
More historic than 50% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Granger Township is more historic than 50% of U.S. towns, #656 of 993 in Ohio. Its age 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 Granger 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: the first post office (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 Granger Township’s history is told.
Three 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 Granger 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 Granger Township.
From Wikipedia’s history of Granger Township.
A post office called Granger was established in 1816, and remained in operation until 1901. Granger has the name of Gideon Granger, a member the Connecticut House of Representatives and 4th United States Postmaster General. A former variant name was Grangerburg.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention Granger Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
men soon became conspicuous in the affairs of But a few years after their arrival and locathe settlement by their industry and persevertion in Granger Township, the wife of John ance in cultivating their land and the interest Burt died and left him a widower. His brother they displayed in all public matters. | Benjamin, then being still a young man and un- Stephen Woodward, who, w-ith his brother, married, they two together left their first settlewas located at Old Portage, in Portage County, ment, near the southeast line of the township, j where they together worked a farm, came into and moved into the locality where now stands the Granger settlement in 1819, and sought the the village of Grangerburg. They erected a
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 SurveyWeddings 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 Granger Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The Granger Township post office opened in 1816, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
Granger Township is more historic than 50% of U.S. towns, #656 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.
12% of Granger Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±5.1 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1983.
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 Wikipedia, 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.
