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More historic than 52% of U.S. towns · #628 of 993 in Ohio. What drives it
Most of Huntington Township was built recently: 10% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1977. Below: 5 old photos and papers, maps from 1929 on, and old-book passages.
More historic than 52% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Huntington Township is more historic than 52% of U.S. towns, #628 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 Huntington Township’s 4.0 sits near the middle of its state (61% of Ohio towns have fewer) while its 1 listings outnumber those of 51% 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.
Two 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).
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Huntington Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Huntington Township is one of the sixteen townships of Brown County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 2,478 people in the township.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 2,763 to 2,478 (-10%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Huntington Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Ellis Palmer was without doubt the first settler in Huntington Township. Shortly after Wayne's treaty, he settled near the mouth of Big Three-Mile Creek, and built a cabin, where he remained until about the year 1804. He then built a cabin near Evan's mill dam, on land now owned by Dyas Gilbert.
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
Huntington Township bore an honorable part in the great war for the snpremady and perpetuity of the Union, and her soldiers have a record of which her people may justly be proud. From that memorable day of April, 1861, when the glorious old flag was struck with traitorous hands, and when the rebel batteries centered their fire on Sumter, until the grand and lasting victory at Appomattox, the sons of Huntington Towns ip, with their lives and all they held dear, were at the service of their country and on the side of the Union.
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 Survey
In the archiveSchool buses at consolidated school for Huntington Township. Ross County, OhioOne decade in the archive so far: the 1940s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Huntington 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 Huntington 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 Huntington 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 Huntington Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Huntington Township’s history is told.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Huntington Township is more historic than 52% of U.S. towns, #628 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.
10% of Huntington 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 1977.
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 (2), the Library of Congress (5), 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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