Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: 12 old photos and papers, maps from 1901 on, and old-book passages.
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).
Every 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.
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 houseWikipedia 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 fifteen townships of Seneca County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 1,401 people in the township.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 1,512 to 1,401 (-7%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Jackson Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
In the extreme southeastern corner of Jackson Township, in a tributary of Wolf Creek, there is an exposure of limestone, and also along the railroad on Section 22. Also in the old town of Risdon, and north of it along the county line, the Niagara stone shows itself. The lime manufactured at Fostoria is equal to that of Springfield or Carey.
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
In the extreme southeastern corner of Jackson Township, in a tributary of Wolf Creek, there is an exposure of limestone, and also along the railroad on Section 22. Also in the old town of Risdon, and north of it along the county line, the Niagara stone shows itself. The lime mannfactiu'ed at Fostoria is equal to that of S[)ringtield or Carey.
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Jackson Township was established December 4, 1832. The simi of !?6 was allowed to George Donaldson, trustee of the meeting-house, as rent for that building diu'ing the IMarch term of court.
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Jackson Township was established December 4, 1832. The sum of §6 was allowed to George Donaldson, trustee of the meeting-hOuse, as rent for that building during the March term of court.
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 SurveyIn the archiveOn the road to Canter's CaveIn the archiveNewsboysNo 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.
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 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.
