The Malta Township post office opened in 1829, the earliest record of the town by name. Two smaller post offices, Chaneyville (1840) and Oscar (1895), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
2020 census: 1,686197 years
How historic is Malta Township?
B
More historic than 65% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
Founding year: the first Malta Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓
History grade
What drives Malta Township’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Malta Township is more historic than 65% of U.S. towns. Its share of homes from before 1940 holds the grade up; its National Register listings pull it down.
B
HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Malta 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 Malta 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.
How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from C+ to A−. The pre-1940 share is a Census survey estimate (±4.2 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 Malta Township’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Malta was laid out in 1816 and named by an early settler who had visited the island of Malta during his time as a sailor. The village developed throughout the 19th century due to its strategic location on the Muskingum River, which became a significant transportation and trade route after the construction of a system of locks and dams between 1836 and 1841.
Passages that mention Malta Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
History of Morgan County, Ohio, with portraits and biographical sketches of some of its pioneers and prominent men1886 · page 383Read the page →
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mont County, Ohio in 1811, and came to Morgan County when it was still wild and sparsely settled. He first settled in Malta Township and afterwards moved to a location between Pennsville and Chester Hill, where he engaged in making threshing machines, the first ever built in the neighborhood, and per-
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The Malta Township post office opened in 1829, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
How does Malta Township rank for history?
Malta Township is more historic than 65% 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.
How old are the homes in Malta Township?
25% of Malta Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±4.2 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1975.
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 (3), Wikipedia, 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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