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More historic than 17% of U.S. towns · #929 of 993 in Ohio. What drives it
Most of Green Township was built recently: 5% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1983. Below: maps from 1926 on and old-book passages.
More historic than 17% 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 17% of U.S. towns, #929 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.
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).
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Green Township’s history is told.
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 Scioto County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census counted 4,107 people in the township.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 4,381 to 4,107 (-6%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Green Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Green Township School Lands. — Vol. 55, page 183, April 12, 1858. The trustees of Green Township are authorized to bring and prosecte civil actions for trespass on lands in Lawrence County which have been set apart for the support of the schools of the French Grant.
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The French Grant embraces 23,934 acres in Green Township. It is all of Green Township, except about 120 acres. The act providing for the Grant was approved March 3, 1795. Vol. 1. U. S. Statutes at Large, page 442. It authorizes a grant of land to the French inhabitants of Gallipolis. It was to front eight miles on the Ohio river beginning one and one-half miles above the mouth of the Little Sandy River and thence down the river and extending back at right angles to include 24,000 acres. The French settlers of Gallipolis were to be ascertain-
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Jesse Young was a Major in the Revolutionary War. Samuel Gould emigrated to Ohio with the Young family, about 1820, and resided there the remainder of his life. He was a Justice of the Peace of Green Township, Scioto County, Ohio, from June 14, 1832 to 1834. He held the office again from June 20, 1849 to 1852, and from 1859 to 1862. He was Trustee of Green Township in 1849. He was post master at Franklin Furnace. He was a carpenter and builder by trade, and prominent in the early Masonic circles of this county.
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 SurveyEvery 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.
Nobody well known was born in Green Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Green Township is more historic than 17% of U.S. towns, #929 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.
5% of Green Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±5.0 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 Wikimedia Commons (6), 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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