The Mill Creek Township post office opened in 1827, the earliest record of the town by name. Two smaller post offices, Mill Creek (1827) and Mound (1879), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
First census: 540 in 19902020 census: 1,032199 years
How historic is Mill Creek Township?
B+
More historic than 72% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
Founding year: the first Mill Creek Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).
History grade
What drives Mill Creek Township’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Mill Creek Township is more historic than 72% 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 Mill Creek 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 Mill Creek 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 (±15.8 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 Mill Creek Township’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Lost post offices, places now gone and burying grounds
Two other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.
Mill Creek
1827–1845
Mound
1879–1907
18201920today
Gone or out of use
Grade SchoolschoolMound SchoolschoolRock Valley SchoolschoolShepler Schoolschool
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Mill Creek Township
KnobSheplers Evangelical
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
On the map
Mill Creek Township on the map, 1913 to 1994
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Mill Creek Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1913Coshocton sheet · 1:62,500
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Mill Creek Township.
The story so far
Mill Creek Township, in brief
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Mill Creek Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Mill Creek Township is one of the twenty-two townships of Coshocton County, Ohio, United States. The population as of the 2020 census was 1,032, up from 932 at the previous census.
Its first post office opened in 1827. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 932 to 1,032 (+11%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Timeline
Mill Creek Township, 1827 to 1913
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
The Mill Creek Township post office opened in 1827, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
How does Mill Creek Township rank for history?
Mill Creek Township is more historic than 72% 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 Mill Creek Township?
34% of Mill Creek Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±15.8 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1993.
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), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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