Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 50% of U.S. towns · #653 of 993 in Ohio. What drives it
Below: maps from 1901 on and old-book passages.
The Green Creek Township post office opened in 1825, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Green Creek (1825), 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, Green Creek Township is more historic than 50% of U.S. towns, #653 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 Green Creek 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 Creek Township’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Green Creek 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 Creek Township.
Another post office, Green Creek, 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).
From Wikipedia’s history of Green Creek Township.
A post office called Green Creek was established in 1825, and remained in operation until 1852. The community took its name from nearby Green Creek.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention Green Creek Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Louis, Missouri. Since his marriage he has followed farming, buying in 1891 a tract of sixty acres in Green Creek Township from Paris Richards. To this he has added from time to time, now owning 155 acres in two tracts, his land cornering in the northeastern part of Green Creek Township, and located about one and three-quarter miles northeast of Clyde. Mr.
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
At the close of the war, Mr. Huber returned to Ohio and purchased fifty acres of the farm he now owns in Green Creek Township, from Robert Smith. He at once opened up his sawmill and later bought the water privilege from Mr. Smith. He first rented the water-mill and later purchased it. He operated this mill some four years, when it was destroyed by fire.
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.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The Green Creek Township post office opened in 1825, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
Green Creek Township is more historic than 50% of U.S. towns, #653 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 Green Creek Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±6.2 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1981.
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.
