Most of Lincoln Township was built recently: 9% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1995. Its Register listing is the Samuel Brown P. House. Its Register listing is the Samuel Brown P. House. Below: 1 old photo or paper, maps from 1915 on, and old-book passages.
Founding year: the first Lincoln Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).
History grade
What drives Lincoln Township’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Lincoln Township is more historic than 73% of U.S. towns. Its age holds the grade up; its share of homes from before 1940 pulls it down.
B+
HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Lincoln Township’s overall grade.
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 Lincoln Township’s 14.7 sits above most of its state (78% of Ohio towns have fewer) while its 3 historic buildings outnumber those of 65% of U.S. towns.
How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from B to A−. The pre-1940 share is a Census survey estimate (±4.3 points). The founding year is the first post office, not a stated founding date.
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 →
What stands out about Lincoln Township’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Lincoln Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1915Marengo sheet · 1:62,500
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Lincoln Township.
The story so far
Lincoln Township, in brief
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Lincoln Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Lincoln Township is one of the sixteen townships of Morrow County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 2,040 people in the township, 250 of whom lived in the village of Fulton.
Its first post office opened in 1841. Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 2,063 in 2010, 2,040 in 2020.
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
From the old history books
What they wrote about Lincoln Township in 1880
Passages that mention Lincoln Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
History of Morrow County and Ohio1880 · page 217Read the page →
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Congress Township, and a smaller addition from Lincoln Township on thie south. Cardington has received a small addition from the northwest corner of Lincoln Township, to give the village of that name space to expand. The townships as they now stand, with their villages and post offices, with the date of their establishment, will be found in the accompanying table :
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History of Morrow County and Ohio1880 · page 217Read the page →
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Congress Township, and a smaller addition from Lincoln Township on the south. Cardington has received a small addition from the northwest corner of Lincoln Township, to give the village of that name space to expand. The townships as they now stand, with their villages and post offices, with the date of their establishment, will be found in the accompanying table :
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.
The Lincoln Township post office opened in 1841, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
How does Lincoln Township rank for history?
Lincoln Township is more historic than 73% 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 Lincoln Township?
One place: the Samuel Brown P. House (listed 1982).
How old are the homes in Lincoln Township?
9% of Lincoln Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±4.3 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1995.
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 (2), the National Register of Historic Places (1), 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.
Date?
2015
