Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Most of Jackson Township was built recently: 8% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1977. Below: 12 old photos and papers, maps from 1915 on, and old-book passages.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
2 decades in the archive, from the 1910s to the 1930s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
1910On the road to Canter's Cave
1936Newsboys
1936Kids
1936Sunday dinner
1936Iron furnace
1936Iron furnace
1936Grocery window
1936Farm Bureau Cooperative Association
1936Street scene, Sunday afternoon
1936Newsboys admiring sporting goods
1936Interior of rehabilitation client's house
1936Interior of rehabilitation client's houseEvery edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Jackson 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 Jackson Township.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Jackson Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Jackson Township is one of the sixteen townships of Crawford County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2020 census the population of the township was 374.
Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 381 in 2010, 374 in 2020.
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Jackson Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Since the separation of Jefferson from Jackson Township, the history of Jackson has centered almost wholly in the town of Crestline, and, even before the separation of the two, the principal pai-t of the histoiy was confined to this floiu'ishing village. It was laid out in 1851, by Rensellaer Livingston, and originally bore his name, and by his name
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Since the separation of Jefferson from Jackson Township, the history of Jackson has centered almost wholly in the town of Crestline, and, even before the separation of the two, the principal part of the history was confined to this flourishincj villasre. It was laid out in 1851, by Rensellaer Livingston, and originally bore his name, and by his name
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The early history of Jackson Township belongs mostly to that portion now forming Jefferson, as already stated. There the first settlements were made, and there occurred many of those pioneer events which constitute the early history of a township, such as the building of mills, schoolhouses, the formation of church societies, and the first birth, death
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The early history of Jackson Township belongs mostly to that portion now forming Jefferson, as already stated. There the first settlements were made, and there occurred many of those pioneer events which constitute the early history of a township, such as the building of mills, schoolhouses, the formation of church societies, and the first birth, death
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.
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 Jackson Township’s page.
Retake this view · +15Nobody well known was born in Jackson Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
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.
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). How TownRatings grades history →
From the Library of Congress (12), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, 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.
