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Photo: Photo by and ©2008 Dustin M. Ramsey (Kralizec!) · CC BY-SA 2.5More historic than 49% of U.S. towns · #668 of 993 in Ohio. What drives it
Below: 1 old photo or paper, maps from 1986 on, and old-book passages.
More historic than 49% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Hopewell Township is more historic than 49% of U.S. towns, #668 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 Hopewell 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 Hopewell Township’s history is told.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Hopewell Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Hopewell Township is one of the fifteen townships of Seneca County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 2,672 people in the township.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 2,774 to 2,672 (-4%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Hopewell Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
December 5, 1825, Agreen Ingraham presented a petition from the inliabitants of the townships of Clinton and Hopewell, praying that all that part of the original siuweyed township of Clinton, lying on the west side of the Sandusky Eiver, should be attached to Hopewell Township. This petition was granted, it appearing to the commissioners that the want in bridge conveniences justified a partition of the original town of Clinton.
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December 5, 1825, Agreen Ingraham presented a petition from the inhabitants of the townships of Clinton and Hopewell, praying that all that part of the original surveyed township of Clinton, lying on the west side of the Sandusky River, should he attached to Hopewell Township. This petition was granted, it appearing to the commissioners that the want in bridge conveniences justified a partition of the original town of Clinton.
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ganizedas follows, to-wit: Composing of original surveyed Township 2, in Range 13, also the original surveyed township in Range 14, excepting a fraction on the east side of the Sandusky River, to be known by the name of Hopewell Township, was granted by the board, and ordered that the qualified electors of said Hopewell Township shall meet at the house of Joseph Pools, in said township, on Saturday, December 25, 1824, and proceed to elect township officers. ' ' The board of commissioners declared the above township legally organized and to be known by the name of Hopewell Township, and at the same
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ganizedas follows, to-wit: Composing of original siirveyed Township 2, in Range 13, also the original surveyed township in Range 14, excepting a fraction on the east side of the Sandusky River, to be known by the name of Hopewell Township, was granted by the board, and ordered that the qualified electors of said Hopewell Township .shall meet at the house of Joseph Pools, in said township, on Saturday, December 25, 1824, and proceed to elect township officers. ' ' The board of commissioners declared the above township legally organized and to be known by the name of Hopewell Township, and at the same
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.
The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Hopewell Township.
1986Findlay sheet · 1:100,000U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Hopewell Township.
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 Hopewell Township’s page.
Retake this view · +15Nobody well known was born in Hopewell Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Old hamlets and crossroads still carry their names on the map.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Hopewell Township is more historic than 49% of U.S. towns, #668 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.
23% of Hopewell Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±9.5 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1975.
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), the Library of Congress (1), 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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