Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 30% of U.S. towns · #848 of 993 in Ohio. What drives it
Below: maps from 1906 on and old-book passages.
More historic than 30% 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 Township is more historic than 30% of U.S. towns, #848 of 993 in Ohio. 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 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: our sources. 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 Township’s history is told.
Another post office, Kinnikinnick, 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 Green 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 Township.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Green Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Green Township is one of the sixteen townships of Ross County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 5,186 people in the township.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 4,918 to 5,186 (+5%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Green Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Born on the home farm, in Green Township, in 1809, Anthony Bitzer was brought up in true pioneer style. In his boyhood days the wild beasts of the forest had not fled before the advancing steps of civilization, but, with the dusky savage, roamed the forests. There being neither railroads nor canals, and no near-by markets, the people subsisted principally upon game, and the products of the soil. The women of the different households, all skilled in domestic arts, used to card, spin and weave the homespun material in which they dressed their families. Dur-
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In 1860 Mr. West sold his share in the business to his brother and bought a farm in Green Township. He was engaged in general farming there until 1884, when leaving his son in charge he moved out to Clark County, Illinois, purchasing 321 acres of land. For the next eleven years he was a farmer and stock raiser in Illinois, but in 1895 returned to his old place in Green Township of Ross County and has lived there in prosperity and ease for the last twenty years.
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.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Green Township is more historic than 30% of U.S. towns, #848 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 Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±4.9 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1987.
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 (10), Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, 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.
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