Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: Nyttend · Public domainMore historic than 46% of U.S. towns · #700 of 993 in Ohio. What drives it
Below: 3 old photos and papers, maps from 1908 on, and old-book passages.
More historic than 46% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Montgomery Township is more historic than 46% of U.S. towns, #700 of 993 in Ohio. 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 Montgomery 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.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Montgomery Township’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Montgomery 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 Montgomery Township.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Montgomery Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Montgomery Township is one of the fifteen townships of Ashland County, Ohio, United States. The population was 2,749 at the 2020 census.
Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 2,700 in 2010, 2,749 in 2020.
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Montgomery Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
those of Jacob Young, Amos Norris, and Vachel Metcalf. There had not been a surveyed road in the township. He carried the chain for the surveyor who established the first road, which led from Sheets’s saw-mill, on the east line of Montgomery Township, via of Jacob Young’s and Leidigh’s mill to Savannah — although at that time there was no Sheets’s or Leidigh’s mills or town of Savannah. Mr. Bishop was elected, at the first election held in Orange, constable for the township. Where the town of Orange
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Daniel Carter — originally from Butler County, Pennsylvania— immigrated to Montgomery Township, in January, 1812, having previously, with his family, resided a brief time at Jeromeville. From the latter point to the farm he subsequently selected and purchased in Montgomery Township, and which is now owned by John Mason, one mile northeast of Ashland, he cut the first road through an unbroken forest. This journey
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.
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Montgomery Township’s page.
Retake this view · +15Nobody well known was born in Montgomery Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Old hamlets and crossroads still carry their names on the map.
Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Montgomery Township is more historic than 46% of U.S. towns, #700 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.
21% of Montgomery Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±10.5 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1978.
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 (5), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, 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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