Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 73% of U.S. towns. What drives it
Its Register listing is the Abram S. Piatt House and Piatt, Donn S., House. Its Register listing is the Abram S. Piatt House and Piatt, Donn S., House. Below: 1 old photo or paper from 1890 on and old-book passages.
More historic than 73% 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 73% of U.S. towns. All 2 inputs are above most U.S. towns; its National Register listings ranks highest and its share of homes from before 1940 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 Monroe Township’s 11.6 sits above most of its state (76% of Ohio towns have fewer) while its 2 historic buildings outnumber those of 60% 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 Monroe Township’s history is told.
Four 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).
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 seventeen townships of Logan County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 1,800.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 1,739 to 1,800 (+4%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Monroe Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Monroe Township is without any large towns or villages, but one small village being within its limits. No railroads cross its soil, nor any manufactories, other than mills, with their noisy machinery, are found here to disturb the quiet of its peaceful inhabitants. It is thoroughly an agricultural township. The population of Monroe, bj' the census of 1840,
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ty Township, it would seem evident that that part of the county was still within the jurisdiction of Jefferson Township. From 1822, when Monroe Township was set off, and Hopkins and Norton, who were both within its limit, John Bishop and Ralph Lowe held the office of Justice until 1825, then Alexander Long until 1832, when he was succeeded by Dr.
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guished as one of the best scribes that ever held office in the county. He lived on the Urbana road, beyond the State bridge, and hence belonged to Monroe Township, after that was organized. John Brown, one of the Trustees in 1818, and several subsequent years, was a brother of Aaron Brown, and lived on his farm, and after-
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.
In the archiveAtlas of Logan County, OhioOne decade in the archive so far: the 1890s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
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 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 73% 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.
One place: the Abram S. Piatt House and Piatt, Donn S., House (listed 1982).
15% of Monroe Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±10.9 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1995.
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 (6), the National Register of Historic Places (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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