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History · Jefferson Township

31% of Jefferson Township’s homes were built before 1940

0on the National Register
31%homes built before 1940
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Photo: Doug Kerr from Albany, NY, United States · CC BY-SA 2.0

What stands out about Jefferson Township’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Jefferson Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages3 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Jefferson Township, and 1 old place names are still on the map.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Jefferson Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

Three other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.

Greersville
1851–1908
Edlam
1897–1897
Greer
1908–1949
18501940today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Greer
Gone or out of use
Camp Mohaven Landing StripairportGreer Post Officepost officeHarrisburg SchoolschoolHorn SchoolschoolJericho SchoolschoolPine Grove FarmlocalePleasant View SchoolschoolSchool Number 2schoolSchool Number 3schoolSchool Number 5schoolSchool Number 6schoolSchool Number 8schoolTurkey Ridge SchoolschoolValley SchoolschoolWalnut FarmlocaleWalnut Grove Schoolschool
3cemeteries and burying grounds inside Jefferson Township
BanburyHardingWesley Chapel

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

The story so far

Jefferson Township, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Jefferson Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Jefferson Township is one of the twenty-two townships of Knox County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 768 people in the township.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 633 to 768 (+21%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline

Jefferson Township, 1851 to 1949

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1851Post officeThe Greersville post office opens
  3. 1897Post officeThe Edlam post office opens
  4. 1897Post officeThe Edlam post office closes
  5. 20th century
  6. 1908Post officeThe Greersville post office closes
  7. 1908Post officeThe Greer post office opens
  8. 1949Post officeThe Greer post office closes
By decade

Jefferson Township, decade by decade

Today2 recent
Larry O. Rosche2015Larry O. RoscheMap of Knox County Ohio Highlighting2015Map of Knox County Ohio HighlightingMap
Famous people

Famous people close to Jefferson Township

Nobody well known was born in Jefferson Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Charles F. KetteringAmerican inventor, engineer, businessman, and t… · b. 1876
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Robert BacherAmerican nuclear physicist · b. 1905
William Henry ThompsonAmerican politician, Nebraska · b. 1853
Americus V. RiceUnion Army general · b. 1835
William Fletcher SappAmerican politician · b. 1824
Charles I. FaddisAmerican politician · b. 1890
Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Brown TownshipIts storyC+Union TownshipIts storyBKnox TownshipIts storyBRichland TownshipIts storyBBrinkhavenIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

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Where this page comes from

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 Wikimedia Commons (2), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.