Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 91% of U.S. towns · #131 of 993 in Ohio. What drives it
4 places in town are on the National Register. Below: maps from 1909 on and old-book passages.
More historic than 91% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Mill Township is more historic than 91% of U.S. towns, #131 of 993 in Ohio. All 2 inputs are above most U.S. towns; its share of homes from before 1940 ranks highest and its National Register listings 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 Mill Township’s 6.2 sits above most of its state (67% of Ohio towns have fewer) while its 6 historic buildings outnumber those of 72% 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 Mill Township’s history is told.
Three 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 Mill 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 Mill Township.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Mill Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Mill Township is one of the twenty-two townships of Tuscarawas County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 9,782 people in the township
Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 9,898 in 2010, 9,782 in 2020.
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Mill Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Uhrichsville is the largest town of Mill Township, and is the second in size in Tuscarawas County. It is located in one of the earliest settled and most important localities of the county. Uhrich’s Mill, on Big Stillwater, one of the first built in pioneer times, was patronized by the settlers for many miles around long before the town was laid out in 1833. The name, with which the proprietor, Michael Uhrich, dedicated the village, was Waterford, but about six years later it was changed to Uhrichsville. The history of the village may be divided into three distinct periods. The first or canal period
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
Christens (Burris) Dutton, natives of this State, the former of English and the latter of Irish descent. William Dutton was reared in the Quaker faith, and was a farmer by occupation. The subject of this sketch was brought up to farm life, and educated at the common schools of Mill Township. From 1850 to 1858, he lived in this county; was then a resident of Harrison County until 1871, when he came to Mill Township. He owns a good farm of seventy acres, and makes potatoes his chief production, raising about three acres annually.
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.
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyThe country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving. One is a National Historic Landmark, the highest tier.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Nobody well known was born in Mill Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Mill Township is more historic than 91% of U.S. towns, #131 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.
32% of Mill Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±5.1 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1959.
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 (3), 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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