Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 68% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Liberty Township is more historic than 68% of U.S. towns, #445 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 Liberty Township’s 1.4 sits near the middle of its state (51% of Ohio towns have fewer) while its 1 listings outnumber those of 51% 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 Liberty Township’s history is told.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Liberty Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Liberty Township is one of the fifteen townships of Hardin County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 7,060.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 7,712 to 7,060 (-8%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Liberty Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
He did not follow this immediately, but was working in a mill with his father up to the age of twenty-one years. He was then in the mill business for himself, and continued at it for nine years. In 1842, he came to this county and settled in Liberty Township on Section 9, where he improved the land, which was covered with timber. In 1844, he started a gdst mill and in 1846, a saw mill, and continued both of them for nineteen years, when he was obliged to move to facilitate the drainage of the marsh. He is the owner of 140 acres, having entered eighty of them in
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The first school existing in Liberty Township was a subscription school, taught in a cabin on Marshall Candler’s place by Roxanna Vincent, in 1837- 38. Twelve scholars were obtained by the efe)rts of Mr. Candler. The teacher was paid $3 per scholar for a term of twelve weeks. In the northeast part of the township, the first school was taught by John Cooney, in the house of Hugh W. McElroy. Soon after, a small frame schoolhouse was erected on the southeast corner of John Garlinger’s farm, opposite the present house, and Eli Strock was the first teacher. In 1873, this house
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.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Liberty 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 Liberty Township.
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 Liberty Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Old hamlets and crossroads still carry their names on the map.
Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Liberty Township is more historic than 68% of U.S. towns, #445 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.
20% of Liberty Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±4.9 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 (4), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, 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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