Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 42% of U.S. towns. What drives it
Below: maps from 1901 on and old-book passages.
More historic than 42% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Loudon Township is more historic than 42% of U.S. towns. Its share of homes from before 1940 holds the grade up; its National Register listings pull 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 Loudon Township’s 0.0 sits below most of its state (23% of Ohio towns have fewer) while its 0 listings outnumber those of 23% 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 Loudon Township’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Loudon 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 Loudon Township.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Loudon Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Loudon Township is one of the fifteen townships of Seneca County, Ohio. There were 2,246 residents of the township at the time of the 2020 census.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 2,140 to 2,246 (+5%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Loudon Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Neal McGaffey, one of the earliest settlers of Tiffin, was also one of the first to set foot in Loudon Township. Owing to the fact that the first actual settlement of Loudon was effected simultaneously by several families, there is no first settler to be named in connection with this division of the county.
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The commissioners met March 5, 1832. A number of road petitions were oranted and viewers appointed. Loudon Township was established. In June, 1832, Liberty Township was set off. The tax levy was placed at 5 mills for county pm-poses, 1 mill for school purposes, and 3 mills for road purposes.
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erty was near Waimkonetta . . . . D. Shea, who died about fifteen years ago, was one of the first settlers, entering his land when there was only a bridle path fi-om Tiffin westward .... Heniy Sheller. a native of Pennsylvania, paternal grandfather of Amos Sheller, of Loudon Township, settled in 1832 on the farm now owned by H. Stuckey, in Loudon Township, and here died. His son Samuel, father of Amos, came to Loudon Township fi-om Hancock County in 1868. then in 1876 moved to Michigan Christian Siegchrist, born in Germany in 1816, came to Tiffin in 1841. where he was a carpenter and after-
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The commissioners met March 5, 1832. A number of road petitions were granted and viewers appointed. Loudon Township was established. In June, 1832, Liberty Township was set off. The tax levy was placed at 5 mOls for county purjjoses, 1 mill for school purposes, and 3 mills for road purposes.
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.
Nobody well known was born in Loudon 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.
Loudon Township is more historic than 42% 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.
19% of Loudon Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±6.5 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1973.
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), 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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