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Tawawa street scenePhoto: Nyttend · Public domain
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History · Green Township

36% of Green Township’s homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1914 on.

0on the National Register
36%homes built before 1940
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Photo: Nyttend · Public domain

What stands out about Green Township’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

Lost villages4 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Green Township, and 5 old place names are still on the map.A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Green Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.On the map since 19144 editions of the USGS map, 1914 to 1972. Watch Green Township change.
★ What stands out · Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

Four other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.

Valintia
1837–1855
Tawawa
1848–1905
Plattsville
1854–1901
Ballou
1884–1902
18301930today
Hamlets and corners on the map
BallouHagemanPlattsvilleTawawaValentine
Gone or out of use
Ballou Post Officepost officePlattsville Post Officepost officeTawawa Post Officepost office
4cemeteries and burying grounds inside Green Township
DorseyPioneerPlattsvilleSturm

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Green Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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On the map

Green Township on the map, 1914 to 1972

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Green Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Green Township on the 1914 USGS mapGreen Township on the 1944 USGS mapGreen Township on the 1961 USGS mapGreen Township on the 1972 USGS map1914Troy sheet · 1:62,500

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.

The story so far

Green Township, in brief

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 fourteen townships of Shelby County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 903 people in the township.

Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 919 in 2010, 903 in 2020.

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline

Green Township, 1837 to 1914

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1837Post officeThe Valintia post office opens
  3. 1848Post officeThe Tawawa post office opens
  4. 1854Post officeThe Plattsville post office opens
  5. 1855Post officeThe Valintia post office closes
  6. 20th century
  7. 1901Post officeThe Plattsville post office closes
  8. 1905Post officeThe Tawawa post office closes
  9. 1914On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Green Township, decade by decade

Today3 recent
Tawawa street scene2015Tawawa street sceneMap of Shelby County Ohio Highlighting Green Township2015Map of Shelby County Ohio Highlighting Green TownshipMapOHMap-doton-Tawawa2007OHMap-doton-Tawawa
Famous people

Famous people close to Green Township

Nobody well known was born in Green Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Dominic Salvatore GentileAmerican flying ace · b. 1920
William H. PitsenbargerUnited States Air Force Medal of Honor recipient · b. 1944
Clive RushAmerican football player and coach · b. 1931
J. Edward RussellAmerican politician · b. 1867
John G. MitchellUnion Army general · b. 1838
K
Kristin KingAmerican ice hockey player · b. 1979
Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Perry TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townOrange Township1 historic placeB+Adams TownshipIts storyB+Brown TownshipIts storyB

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Sources

Where this page comes from

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). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikimedia Commons (3), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.