Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 41% of U.S. towns. What drives it
Below: old-book passages.
More historic than 41% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Monroe Township is more historic than 41% of U.S. towns. Its share of homes from before 1940 holds the grade up; its National Register listings pull 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 Monroe 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.
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.
Five 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).
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Monroe Township’s history is told.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Monroe Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Monroe Township is one of the twenty-seven townships of Ashtabula County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 2,138 people in the township.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 2,381 to 2,138 (-10%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Monroe Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Accordingly, the growing settlement of Monroe Township was considered needy of his attention, and, in 1804, he organized a “class meeting’ and preached to the dwellers thereabout at stated intervals in his itinerary of the county. These meetings were held for many years at the homes of members, and taken to the schoolhouse, after one was built in 1814. An organization of the Congregational faith was affected in 1829, and the Rev. Ephraim Woodruff was the first minister. This organization erected | a church home in 1832, at a cost of $1,500, which was contributed in fifths
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Monroe Township was particularly favored with water that could be utilized for power, as both the Conneaut and Ashtabula Rivers flow through its boundaries. This advantage was improved by many and water mills of all descriptions used in that period were constructed here and there throughout the portions of the townships where the rivers were. Distilleries were among the most essential requirements of that time, and were as common as grist mills.
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.
Nobody well known was born in Monroe Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Monroe Township is more historic than 41% 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.
18% of Monroe Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±9.9 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1976.
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 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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