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History · Monday Creek Township

Half of Monday Creek Township’s homes were built after 1977

Most of Monday Creek Township was built recently: 6% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1977. Below: maps from 1907 on.

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What stands out about Monday Creek Township’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Monday Creek Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.On the map since 19074 editions of the USGS map, 1907 to 2002. Watch Monday Creek Township change.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Monday Creek Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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On the map

Monday Creek Township on the map, 1907 to 2002

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Monday Creek Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Monday Creek Township on the 1907 USGS mapMonday Creek Township on the 1961 USGS mapMonday Creek Township on the 1975 USGS mapMonday Creek Township on the 2002 USGS map1907Logan 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 Monday Creek Township.

The story so far

Monday Creek Township, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Monday Creek Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Monday Creek Township is one of the fourteen townships of Perry County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 694 people in the township.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 727 to 694 (-5%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline

Monday Creek Township, 1855 to 1907

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1855Post officeThe Maxvillie post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1904Post officeThe Maxvillie post office closes
  5. 1907On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Monday Creek Township, decade by decade

Today3 recent
Monday Creek Community Center2016Monday Creek Community CenterMaxville UMC2016Maxville UMCMap of Perry County Ohio Highlighting2015Map of Perry County Ohio HighlightingMap
Famous people

Famous people close to Monday Creek Township

Nobody well known was born in Monday Creek Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Sarah Jessica ParkerAmerican actress · b. 1965
Curtis ScaparrottiUnited States Army General · b. 1956
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Gene ColeAmerican sprinter · b. 1928
Stephen Benton ElkinsUnion United States Army officer · b. 1841
John Augustine ZahmHoly Cross priest, author, scientist, and South… · b. 1851
Januarius MacGahanAmerican journalist · b. 1844
Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

Another post office, Maxvillie, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Hamlets and corners on the map
Maxville
Gone or out of use
Coon SchoolschoolFairview United Brethren ChurchchurchHammond SchoolschoolHarmony United Brethren ChurchchurchMaxville Post Officepost officeMaxville QuarriesmineOwens Landing FieldairportTerrell Schoolschool
4cemeteries and burying grounds inside Monday Creek Township
Ebenezer BaptistFairviewHarmonySaint Johns

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Jackson TownshipIts storyBFalls Township7 historic placesA+Marion TownshipIts storyC−Salt Lick Township1 historic placeA+

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Sources

Where this page comes from

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 (3), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, 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.