Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 28% of U.S. towns · #860 of 993 in Ohio. What drives it
Its Register listing is the Charles E. Firestone House. Most of Jackson Township was built recently: 3% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1980. Its Register listing is the Charles E. Firestone House. Below: maps from 1901 on and old-book passages.
More historic than 28% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Jackson Township is more historic than 28% of U.S. towns, #860 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 Jackson Township’s 0.2 sits near the middle of its state (46% 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.
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).
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Jackson Township’s history is told.
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.
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 17 townships of Stark County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 43,067 people in the township.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 40,373 to 43,067 (+7%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Jackson Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Stough as early as ISOIJ, and of the erection of a church there in 1800. A church was built in Jackson Township in 1814, bjall religious denominations at that time represented in the township. It was of hewed logs and called " Zion's Church." The first preaching in Osnaburg Township, of which we have reliable information, was by Rev. William Mitchell, a
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
and contracts on the railroad; also acted in the capacity of superintendent over laborers; afterwai'd, he purchased a fann of 171 .acres, in Jackson Township, which he improved, disposing of the wood to the railroad company; subsequently, he, in company with AVilliam Brown, were instnimental in starting a coal bank, which was among the earliest that was
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
2024Jackson Polar Bears 7-15-24 thumbnail IMG 2043
2024Jackson HS 7-15-24 thumbnail IMG 2046
2018House on West Dale Rd NW, Ohio 1
2018House on Coventry Lane NW, Jackson Township, Stark Co…
2017William Kettering Homestead (relocated)
2017Jackson Center One Room School - Stark County, Ohio
2016Jackson Friends Church
2016Commercial Development on Portage Street at Frank
2016Belden Village Mall Entrance
2015Map of Stark County Ohio Highlighting Jackson TownshipMap
2012Hall of fame bridge night
2008OHMap-doton-MarchandThe 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.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Jackson Township is more historic than 28% of U.S. towns, #860 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.
One place: the Charles E. Firestone House (listed 2011).
3% of Jackson Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±1.0 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1980.
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 (12), the National Register of Historic Places (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.
