Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 67% of U.S. towns · #459 of 993 in Ohio. What drives it
Most of Miami Township was built recently: 7% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1981. Below: maps from 1908 on and old-book passages.
More historic than 67% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Miami Township is more historic than 67% of U.S. towns, #459 of 993 in Ohio. Its National Register listings hold the grade up; its share of homes from before 1940 pulls 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 Miami Township’s 10.7 sits above most of its state (75% of Ohio towns have fewer) while its 56 historic buildings outnumber those of 86% 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 Miami Township’s history is told.
Two other post offices 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).
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Miami 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 Miami Township.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Miami Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Miami Township is one of the nine townships of Montgomery County, Ohio, United States. The population was 52,156 at the 2020 census.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 50,735 to 52,156 (+3%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Miami Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
The oldest regular cemeteries in Miami Township are the one at Gebha Church, in Section 19, east of Miamisburg, and that at the Stettler Chore) in Section 1 5, southwest of the town, both of which were begun as early i 1805, and are yet in a fair state of preservation. About 1815, a cemetery w; opened on land donated for that purpose by Jacob Kerch er, and which w: afterward incorporated within the city limits. The exact date of the fir burial in this graveyard it is impossible now to learn, but one old head-stoi bears the date of 1820, and pioneers yet living tell us that it was at least fr
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
Tobacco had been grown by the farmers in small quantities, for their own US' from the time of the first settlement of the county, but little, if any, had bee raised for sale until in 1838. Thomas Pomeroy, of Miami Township, sold a p crop that he had raised on rented ground. There was great prejudice against ft cultivation of tobacco from a belief that it injured the land. A few small crop of “Spanish seed leaf”*were grown in Miami and Butler Townships in 1842, an) sold at 5 and 7 cents a pound; of that crop a Dayton merchant in the spring < 1843, packed and shipped 40 hlids. About 1,000 hhds of the crop of 1842 wei
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.
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.
Nobody well known was born in Miami Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Miami Township is more historic than 67% of U.S. towns, #459 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.
5 listings: 2 buildings, among them the Pease Homestead (listed 1980, the first). 56 historic buildings in all.
7% of Miami Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±1.4 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1981.
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 (1), the National Register of Historic Places (2), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, 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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