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More historic than 88% of U.S. towns · #184 of 993 in Ohio. What drives it
14 places in town are on the National Register, among them two historic districts with 51 buildings between them. Below: 12 old photos and papers, maps from 1900 on, and the census since 1840.
The Maumee post office opened in 1835, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Maumee City (1838), opened inside today’s city and later closed.
More historic than 88% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Maumee is more historic than 88% of U.S. towns, #184 of 993 in Ohio. All 3 inputs are above most U.S. towns; its National Register listings ranks highest and its share of homes from before 1940 lowest.
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 Maumee’s 45.9 sits above most of its state (88% of Ohio towns have fewer) while its 63 historic buildings outnumber those of 86% of U.S. towns.
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 →
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Maumee. 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 Maumee.
From Wikipedia’s history of Maumee.
In pre-colonial times, Native Americans (notably the Ottawa) began using the rich resources at the present site of Maumee, Ohio, in the Maumee River valley. Throughout much of the eighteenth century, French, British and American forces struggled for control of the lower Maumee River as a major transportation artery linking East and West through Lake Erie.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention Maumee, cut from the printed page as they were published.
purpose of attending to the erection and repairs of the public buildings of the Countv.' The Commissioners at this time were John Pray, Samuel Spafford, and Hiram P. Barlow. They examined the County Jail 'which had been removed from the town of Maumee and erected in the town of Perrysburg agreeable to a contract entered into for that purpose with Daniel Hubbell' at a cost of $48. It was further "ordered that so much of the Township of Waynesfield as is included in the organized County of Wood, and lying and being on the south of the
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For this purpose $12,000 was appropriated, on account of the former great sufferings of these people with smallpox. Doctor Oscar White of the Village of Maumee was employed for this purpose by James Jackson, the Agent then residing at Maumee, and in the vear 1833 he vaccinated eight hundred Aborigines thereabout, the most of them being Ottawas.
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one story Second National Bank Building of Toledo, also erected the Cherry Street bridge of that city, the Damascus bridge over the Maumee near Napoleon, and their bridges may be found all the way from New York to San Francisco. Recently a bridge was shipped from the company's plant to Los Angeles, California, and they have also done
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He is one of Toledo's successful business men who have established beautiful country homes away from the city's noise and dirt at Maumee and Perrysburg. His own home is in the village of Maumee, and is situated on historic ground and the residence is a fine old colonial mansion. While improving his grounds Mr. Ormond unearthed a number of
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.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
In the archive1813 Map of the Rapids of Miami, showing Fort Meigs
In the archive1827 Plat - Twelve Square Miles Reserve
Born hereJames W. Forsyth is born here
Born hereHenry Ware Lawton is born here
Born hereWilliam Cary Van Fleet is born here
In the archive1875 Maumee Ohio map
In the archiveUnion School, Maumee, Ohio (approximately 1880) - DPLA - b1508fd0dbdb1aeb145bfbe4cdf6eae9
In the archive410 Conant Street, Maumee, Ohio (approximately 1890) - DPLA - 3735d36d8094b0ba0b61499246b…
In the archiveMaumee-Perrysburg Bridge, Maumee, Ohio [approximately 1900]
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey6 decades in the archive, from the 1810s to the 1900s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
18751875 Maumee Ohio mapMap
1879Turkey Foot Rock, Maumee, Ohio (approximately 1879) -…
1879Wabash and Erie Canal, Maumee, Ohio (approximately 18…1880Union School, Maumee, Ohio (approximately 1880) - DPL…1890410 Conant Street, Maumee, Ohio (approximately 1890) …
1890Wayne Street, Maumee, Ohio, around 1890 - DPLA - b392…No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Maumee’s page.
Retake this view · +15Between 840 and 15,937 people in every census since 1840.
19 censuses, 1840–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Maumee’s Wikipedia page.
Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.
Maumee’s post office has been open since 1835. Another post office, Maumee City, 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).
Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The Maumee post office opened in 1835, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
Maumee is more historic than 88% of U.S. towns, #184 of 993 in Ohio. 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.
14 listings: 11 buildings, among them the Hull-Wolcott House (listed 1970, the first), 2 historic districts, the Maumee Historic District and the Maumee Uptown Historic District, with 51 contributing buildings, and 1 structure. 63 historic buildings in all.
16% of Maumee’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±2.9 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1963.
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 (12), the National Register of Historic Places (14), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via 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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