Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 35% of U.S. towns · #798 of 993 in Ohio. What drives it
Below: 2 old photos and papers, maps from 1907 on, and old-book passages.
More historic than 35% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Greenfield Township is more historic than 35% of U.S. towns, #798 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 Greenfield 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 Greenfield Township’s history is told.
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).
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Greenfield 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 Greenfield Township.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Greenfield Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Greenfield Township is one of the thirteen townships of Fairfield County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2020 census the population was 5,745.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 5,565 to 5,745 (+3%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Greenfield Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
schools. From youth up he has been interested and engaged in agricultural pursuits and owns two valuable farms of 100 acres each, both being in Greenfield Township. In 1889 he moved to Shelby County, 111., where he lived for ten years and then returned to Fairfield County and ever since has been a resident of Greenfield Township. In politics he is a Demo-
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L. Alonzo Miller attended the public schools of Greenfield Township and his business has always been along agricultural lines. He owns an excellent farm of 112 acres in Greenfield Township, which he devotes to general farming and stockraising.
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.
In the archiveBlaine's school house, Greenfield township, Fairfield county, Ohio
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyOne decade in the archive so far: the 1880s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Greenfield Township’s page.
Retake this view · +15Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Greenfield Township is more historic than 35% of U.S. towns, #798 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.
14% of Greenfield Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±4.0 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 (4), 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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