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More historic than 46% of U.S. towns. What drives it
Below: maps from 1961 on and the census since 1880.
The Green Camp Township post office opened in 1854, the earliest record of the town by name.
More historic than 46% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Green Camp Township is more historic than 46% 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 Green Camp 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 Green Camp Township’s history is told.
Peaked at 537 in 1970; 310 people lived here in 2020.
15 censuses, 1880–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Green Camp Township’s Wikipedia page.
From Wikipedia’s history of Green Camp Township.
Green Camp was originally called Berwick, and under the latter name was laid out in 1838. The present name is derived from Green Camp Township.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention Green Camp Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
ordered, lhat the south tier of sections now belonging to Big Island Township and one-half mile on the west side of Township 6, Range 15 south, be and the same is hereby set off to Green Camp Township; and that the east half of Sections 6. 7 and 18 in said township above described be and the same is hereby set off to Pleasant Township. There were still other changes made in the boundaries, as will be seen from the following portion of an entry made in the Commissioners' record in the year 1838: March 5 (1st Monday), 1838.
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Green Camp Township has shared in the experiences of pioneer school teaching. The first school taught in District No. 5 was in the winter of 1838 -39. It was commenced in one of the houses vacated by the Germans, but in a short time the house caught fire and burned down. Adam Imbody had lately built an addition to his house, but had not yet occupied it. so he gave the school permission to occupy it. But a disturbance soon arose, and it again became necessary to remove, which was done to a house 12x14 feet, in which Mrs. Sifritt had kept her loom when weaving. Here the term was finished .
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Green Camp Township has shared in the experiences of pioneer schoolteaching. The first school taught in District No. 5 was in the winter of 1838 -89. It was commenced in one of the houses vacated by the Germans, but in a short time the house caught fire and burned down. Adam Imbody had lately built an addition to his house, but had not yet occupied it, so he gave the school permission to occupy it. But a disturbance soon arose, and it again became necessary to remove, which was done to a house 12x14 feet, in which Mrs. Sifritt had kept her loom when weaving. Here the term was finished.
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.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Green Camp 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 Green Camp Township.
Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The Green Camp Township post office opened in 1854, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
Green Camp Township is more historic than 46% 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.
27% of Green Camp Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±8.1 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1957.
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 (3), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), 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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