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More historic than 59% of U.S. towns. What drives it
Its Register listings are the John Edwards House and the Leipsic City Hall. Below: maps from 1960 on and the census since 1880.
The Leipsic post office opened in 1851, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Roanoke (1866), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
More historic than 59% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Leipsic is more historic than 59% of U.S. towns. Its National Register listings hold the grade up; its age 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 Leipsic’s 9.8 sits above most of its state (74% of Ohio towns have fewer) while its 2 listings outnumber those of 60% 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 Leipsic’s history is told.
Leipsic’s post office has been open since 1851. Another post office, Roanoke, 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).
From Wikipedia’s history of Leipsic.
Leipsic was platted in 1857. The name is a variant spelling of Leipzig, one of the largest cities in eastern Germany.
Two buildings in Leipsic are listed on the National Register of Historic Places: the old village hall and the John Edwards House.
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Passages that mention Leipsic, cut from the printed page as they were published.
good land has been brought into cultivation. The first town was Medary, laid out, in 1845, by the late Judge Palmer, who erected a mill and This mill was quite a curiosity, built for a grist and saw-mill, with the grist mill above. The town of Leipsic was laid out by John Peckinraugh, in 1853 or 1854, and for a time was quite a kept a small store.
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Joseph H. Edwards was reared on the paternal farm east of Leipsic and, besides attendance on the district school in that neighborhood, received a course of several years of instruction in special schools conducted in Leipsic at that period. Upon reaching manhood's estate he, for three years, followed farming, but finding that this manner of living did not agree with his health, he sold his farm and for about awelve years was engaged in the hardware business in the town of Leipsic. At the end of this time he formed a partnership with his brothers, W. W. and John, and in connection
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Jacob Werner was born near Sandyville, Tuscarawas county, Ohio, August 20, 1839. Attended school at Oberlin and Carey and taught several terms prior to 1861, in which year he located at Leipsic, and in partnership with A. Foulk he engaged in the mercantile business. This partnership continued until the spring of 1863, when he was appointed station agent for the Dayton & Michigan Railroad Co., at Leipsic, retaining this office until 1878, a period of fifteen years.
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West Leipsic was laid out and platted in 1852. In the year 1850 John W. Peckenpaugh purchased the land where the village of West Leipsic now stands and had the first survey of twenty lots made, by Samuel Parker, county surveyor. A second and third survey was made in the following years, 1853-54, and completed the platting of all the lands now included in the town lying north of the Nickel Plate railroad.
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.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Leipsic. 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 Leipsic.
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.
Between 681 and 2,236 people in every census since 1880.
15 censuses, 1880–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Leipsic’s Wikipedia page.
Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.
The Leipsic post office opened in 1851, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
Leipsic is more historic than 59% 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.
Two places: the John Edwards House (listed 1978) and the Leipsic City Hall (1979).
16% of Leipsic’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±5.8 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1974.
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), the National Register of Historic Places (2), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), 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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