Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 58% of U.S. towns · #555 of 993 in Ohio. What drives it
Its Register listings are the Christian S. Herr House. Its Register listings are the Christian S. Herr House. Below: 18 old photos and papers and maps from 1925 on.
More historic than 58% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Hamilton Township is more historic than 58% of U.S. towns, #555 of 993 in Ohio. Its National Register listings hold the grade up; its share of homes from before 1940 pulls 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 Hamilton Township’s 3.2 sits near the middle of its state (57% of Ohio towns have fewer) while its 3 historic buildings outnumber those of 65% 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).
3 decades in the archive, from the 1840s to the 1930s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
1922Wheel loading chute, Ford Motor Co
1935Backyard
1935Housing along front street
1935Typical frame house on hilly shore of Ohio River
1935Typical frame house on hilly shore of Ohio River
1935Untitled photo, possibly related to: Backyard
1935Untitled photo, possibly related to: Backyard
1935Untitled photo, possibly related to: Backyard
1935Untitled photo, possibly related to: Backyard
1935Untitled photo, possibly related to: Backyard
1935Common hallway sink in old schoolhouse
1935Untitled photo, possibly related to: Typical frame ho…
1935Untitled photo, possibly related to: Typical frame ho…
1935Untitled photo, possibly related to: Housing along fr…
1935Untitled photo, possibly related to: Housing along fr…
1935Untitled photo, possibly related to: Housing along fr…
1935Untitled photo, possibly related to: Housing along fr…Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Hamilton 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 Hamilton Township.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Hamilton Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Hamilton Township is one of the seventeen townships of Franklin County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 8,634 people in the township.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 8,260 to 8,634 (+5%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
In the archive1842 Map of Hamilton Township, Franklin County, OhioIn the archiveWheel loading chute, Ford Motor Co
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyIn the archiveBackyardNo 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 Hamilton Township’s page.
Retake this view · +15The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Nobody well known was born in Hamilton Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Hamilton Township is more historic than 58% of U.S. towns, #555 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.
2 listings: 1 building, among them the Christian S. Herr House (listed 1982, the first). 3 historic buildings in all.
10% of Hamilton Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±4.4 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1971.
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 (1), the Library of Congress (17), the National Register of Historic Places (1), 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.
