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History · Jennings Township

39% of Jennings Township’s homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1986 on.

0on the National Register
39%homes built before 1940
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Photo: Nyttend · Public domain

What stands out about Jennings 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 Jennings Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Jennings Township, and 3 old place names are still on the map.
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Start Jennings Township’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Jennings Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
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Places that used to be

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

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

Monticello
1879–1909
Converse
1885–1905
18701950today
Hamlets and corners on the map
ConverseConverse StationMonticello
Gone or out of use
Converse Post Officepost officeHoreb ChurchchurchJennings SchoolschoolMonticellow Post Officepost officePrairie SchoolschoolRoller SchoolschoolTownsend SchoolschoolWilson Schoolschool
4cemeteries and burying grounds inside Jennings Township
Fissel LauthHanceHorebWright

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

The story so far

Jennings Township, in brief

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

Jennings Township is one of the twelve townships of Van Wert County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 636 people in the township.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 668 to 636 (-5%).

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

Timeline

Jennings Township, 1879 to 1986

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1879Post officeThe Monticello post office opens
  3. 1885Post officeThe Converse post office opens
  4. 20th century
  5. 1905Post officeThe Converse post office closes
  6. 1909Post officeThe Monticello post office closes
  7. 1986On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Jennings Township, decade by decade

Today4 recent
Jennings Township wheat field2015Jennings Township wheat fieldJennings Township hall, Converse2015Jennings Township hall, ConverseMap of Van Wert County Ohio Highlighting2015Map of Van Wert County Ohio HighlightingMapJennings VanWert2006Jennings VanWert
On the map

Jennings Township on the map in 1986

The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Jennings Township.

Jennings Township on the 1986 USGS map1986Lima sheet · 1:100,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Jennings Township.

Famous people

Famous people close to Jennings Township

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

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Neely EdwardsActor · b. 1883
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Dakota MathiasAmerican basketball player · b. 1995
Earl WilsonAmerican journalist · b. 1907
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Leslie PeltierAmerican astronomer · b. 1900
Sabrina ScharfAmerican politician and actress · b. 1943
Kory LichtensteigerAmerican football player · b. 1985
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Spencer Township1 historic placeA−York TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townSalem TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Jennings Township’s history

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Sources

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 (4), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, 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.