The story
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From Wikipedia’s history of Liberty Township.
Liberty Township was organized in 1817. It is one of twenty-five Liberty Townships statewide.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
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History · Liberty Township
2 of Liberty Township’s places are on the National Register
More historic than 40% of U.S. towns. What drives it
Its Register listings are the Kirker Covered Bridge and the Gov. Thomas Kirker Homestead. Most of Liberty Township was built recently: 3% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1996. Its Register listings are the Kirker Covered Bridge and the Gov. Thomas Kirker Homestead. Below: maps from 1918 on.
2on the National Register
3%homes built before 1940
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About Liberty Township’s history
How historic is Liberty Township?
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What drives the grade ↓More historic than 40% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
History grade
What drives Liberty Township’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Liberty Township is more historic than 40% of U.S. towns. Its National Register listings hold the grade up; its share of homes from before 1940 pulls it down.
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HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Liberty Township’s overall grade.
Founding eraNo founding year we can rely on, so the grade uses the other two–Homes built before 19402.6% of homes (±3.8) · typical OH town 14.5% · U.S. 8.4%C−National Register2 listings, 9.0 per 10,000 residents · typical OH town 2.9 · U.S. 2.4B+
All U.S. towns we grade (21,289)Ahead of 40%
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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 9.0 sits above most of its state (73% of Ohio towns have fewer) while its 2 listings outnumber those of 60% of U.S. towns.
How sure. Graded on two of the three inputs, so a change in either one moves the letter more than it would with three. The pre-1940 share is a Census survey estimate (±3.8 points).
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 →
What stands out about Liberty Township’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
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Start Liberty Township’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Liberty Township’s history is told.
Decades since 1900 with photos
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.Timeline
Liberty Township, 1857 to 1918
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
By decade
Liberty Township, decade by decade
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2008On the map
Liberty Township on the map, 1918 to 1961
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Liberty Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1918Seaman sheet · 1:62,500U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Liberty Township.
On the National Register
2 historic places in Liberty Township
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
places listed
2
National Historic Landmarks
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none yet
historic buildings protected
2
each building in a district counts
first listed
1975
Kirker Covered Bridge
BuildingsStructures
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Famous people
See all →Famous people close to Liberty Township
Nobody well known was born in Liberty Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Places that used to be
Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds
Another post office, Hillsfork, opened and closed inside today’s town.
Hamlets and corners on the map
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Gone or out of use
Brier Ridge SchoolschoolBunker Hill SchoolschoolChaparral SchoolschoolJerusalem SchoolschoolKirker SchoolschoolOakland SchoolschoolPike SchoolschoolSodom SchoolschoolSunshine Schoolschool
4cemeteries and burying grounds inside Liberty Township
BissingerChaparralHaleKirker
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Stories next door
History across the town line
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Questions about Liberty Township’s history
How does Liberty Township rank for history?
Liberty Township is more historic than 40% 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.
What is on the National Register in Liberty Township?
Two places: the Kirker Covered Bridge (listed 1975) and the Gov. Thomas Kirker Homestead (1975).
How old are the homes in Liberty Township?
3% of Liberty Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±3.8 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1996.
Memory lane
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
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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).
From Wikimedia Commons (5), Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (2), Wikipedia, 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.