Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: old-book passages.
The Mark Township post office opened in 1868, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Mark (1868), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
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 Mark Township’s history is told.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Mark Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Mark Township is one of the twelve townships of Defiance County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 902 people in the township.
Its first post office opened in 1868. Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 908 in 2010, 902 in 2020.
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Mark Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Mark Township lies lower than any other township of the county. Platter Creek Marsh and Gordon Creek Marshes being mainly in this township, the artificial drainage, is extensive and systematic, and been reclaimed within the last decade. We find little clay in the township, and it is believed that in time this township will be the most productive in the county. The streams and drainage all tend to the
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nah, at which place he was disharged, January, 1865, and returned home to Union County and vame to Defiance County in 1868 and located in Hicksville Township. In 1878, he moved to Mark Township and located on Section 29, and engaged in lumbering, carrying on his farm in Hicksville Township.
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Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Another post office, Mark, 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).
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The Mark Township post office opened in 1868, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
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). How TownRatings grades history →
From Wikimedia Commons (4), 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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