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More historic than 69% of U.S. towns. What drives it
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The Jeffersonville post office opened in 1834, the earliest record of the town by name.
More historic than 69% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Jeffersonville is more historic than 69% of U.S. towns. Its share of homes from before 1940 holds the grade up; its National Register listings pull 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 Jeffersonville’s 0.0 sits below most of its state (23% of Ohio towns have fewer) while its 0 listings outnumber those of 23% of U.S. towns.
Founding year: the first post office (other dates in Quick answers). 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 Jeffersonville’s history is told.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Born hereGrayson L. Kirk is born hereFrom Wikipedia’s history of Jeffersonville.
Jeffersonville was laid out in 1831. The village derives its name from Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States. A post office has been in operation at Jeffersonville since 1834.
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Passages that mention Jeffersonville, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Under authority of the state of Ohio, the town of Jeffersonville was duly incorporated in March, 1838. The corporation limits were materially extended in April, 1880.
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It was a very crude structure. Another water-mill was erected on the same creek bv William Blackamore and used for grinding corn. Jacob Creamer, in 1840, erected a saw-mill within the present limits of Jeffersonville, where the covered bridge stood, and afterwards added a corn-cracker. During the Avet season lumber was shipped across the creek on a raft and taken to the village. The lumber, which was white and burr oak, was used extensively.
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Vinton county and engaged in the mercantile business with his father. After his father’s death he continued to manage the store in Allensville until he went to Marysville, Ohio, where he managed a store for four years, and in - 1883 located in Jeffersonville, this county, where he engaged in business until 1904, when he retired from active life and is now living quietly in Jeffersonville surrounded by all the comforts and conveniences of modern life.
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Mr. Wrigbt bas a farm of forty-tive acres, well improved, situated one and one-balf mile nortb of Jeffersonville. Is a member of tbe Masonic fraternity of Jeffersonville. His second wife was a member of tbe Metbodist Protestant Cburcb.
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The Jeffersonville post office opened in 1834, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
Jeffersonville is more historic than 69% of U.S. towns. 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.
30% of Jeffersonville’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±8.2 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1969.
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 (6), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, 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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