Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 74% of U.S. towns · #372 of 993 in Ohio. What drives it
Its Register listing is the Martin Marmon House. Below: 1 old photo or paper, maps from 1913 on, and old-book passages.
More historic than 74% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Jefferson Township is more historic than 74% of U.S. towns, #372 of 993 in Ohio. All 2 inputs are above most U.S. towns; its share of homes from before 1940 ranks highest and its National Register listings lowest.
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 Jefferson Township’s 6.5 sits above most of its state (68% of Ohio towns have fewer) while its 2 historic buildings outnumber those of 60% 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.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Jefferson Township’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Jefferson 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 Jefferson Township.
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 seventeen townships of Logan County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 3,028.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 2,912 to 3,028 (+4%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Jefferson Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
In writing of the early schools and schoolhouses of Jefferson Township, we have to enter at once on the field of conjecture to some extent. As early, probably, as 1818, a large log house was erected in the north part of the township, for the purpose of a Baptist meeting-house. Its location was near the southwest corner of J. C. Kitchen's farm, on
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In writing of the early schools and schoolhouses of Jefferson Township, we have to enter at once on the field of conjecture to some extent. As early, probably, as 1818, a large log house was erected in the north part of the township, for the purpose of a Baptist meeting-house. Its location was near the southwest corner of J. C. Kitchen’s farm, on
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Jefferson Township has been comparatively free from murders, suicides, or accidents resulting in death. A few cases of the latter have occurred, of which we can only call to mind the following: In the summer of 1848, Nathan Walton was killed at the steam saw-mill north of Jerusalem, by the saw coming in contact with
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.
One decade in the archive so far: the 1890s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
The 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 Jefferson Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Another post office, New Jerusalem, 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).
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Jefferson Township is more historic than 74% of U.S. towns, #372 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 Martin Marmon House (listed 1986).
18% of Jefferson Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±7.3 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1990.
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 (5), Wikidata (1), 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.
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