Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 50% of U.S. towns · #665 of 993 in Ohio. What drives it
Its Register listing is the Highbank Farm. Most of Liberty Township was built recently: 9% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1980. Below: maps from 1906 on and old-book passages.
More historic than 50% 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 50% of U.S. towns, #665 of 993 in Ohio. Its National Register listings hold the grade up; its share of homes from before 1940 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 Liberty Township’s 3.9 sits near the middle of its state (60% 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.
Four other post offices 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).
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Liberty Township’s history is told.
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.
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 sixteen townships of Ross County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 2,623 people in the township.
Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 2,619 in 2010, 2,623 in 2020.
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Liberty Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Jersey, and ere he had entered his teens was brought by his parents to Ross County. From his obituary, written by one of his sons, we learn that he obtained the rudiments of his education in a log eabin, it having been the first building erected in Liberty Township for school purposes, the pupils attending representing at that time thirty-two families. At the time of his death, at the age of four score years, all but two of those families, the Joneses and the Claypools, had become extinct in Liberty Township, either by death or by removal.
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
Douglas R. Griffin was born October 24, 1856, in Liberty Township, Ross County, Ohio, was reared on his father’s farm, and was given good educational advantages, attending the public schools of Liberty Township and a commercial college at Dayton, Ohio. After beginning business life he was at different times engaged in the mercantile business and in operating a grist mill and lumber mill, but: his principal occupation has always been farming, and, as stated, he is now the owner of Kenmore Warm, which contains 500 acres of as valuable land as can be found
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.
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyThe 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.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Liberty Township is more historic than 50% of U.S. towns, #665 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 Highbank Farm (listed 1980).
9% of Liberty Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±8.1 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1980.
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 (9), 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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