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More historic than 36% of U.S. towns · #786 of 993 in Ohio. What drives it
Its Register listings are the David Crabill House and the Kenton-Hunt Farm. Most of Moorefield Township was built recently: 2% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1976. Below: maps from 1986 on and old-book passages.
More historic than 36% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Moorefield Township is more historic than 36% of U.S. towns, #786 of 993 in Ohio. Its National Register listings hold the grade up; its share of homes from before 1940 pulls 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 Moorefield Township’s 3.2 sits near the middle of its state (57% of Ohio towns have fewer) while its 4 historic buildings outnumber those of 68% 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.
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).
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Moorefield Township’s history is told.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Moorefield Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Moorefield Township is one of the ten townships of Clark County, Ohio, United States. The population as of the 2020 census was 12,622.
Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 12,436 in 2010, 12,622 in 2020.
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Moorefield Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Villa is located in the sonthevu jiart of Moorefield Township, on the Clark and Union Turnpike, two miles north of Lagonda. It has never been platted, and the name was given to a cluster of houses built on small portions of land surrounding the pike crossing at that place. It afterwards reached the dignity of a post
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southwest corner of Section 36; thence north with the line dividing Townships 3 and 4 to the place of beginning. The elections were to be held at the house of Archibald McKinley. The township then comprised besides its present land, portions of Moorefield Township, which, in the year 1835, were taken from it leaving it with the present territory. It is in the northern tier of townships, and west but one, lying south of Champaign County, west of Moorefield Township, north of Springfield and Bethel, and east of Pike Township. The surface in general is an elevated table-land, beautiful and very fertile valleys extend
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southwest corner of Section 36; thence north with the line dividing Townships 3 and 4 to the pfiaee of beginning. The elections were to be held at the house of Archibald McKinley. The township) then comprised besides its present land, portions of Moorefield Township, which, in the year 1835. were taken from it leaving it with the present territory. It is in the northern tier of townships, and west but one, lying south of Champ>aign County, west of Moorefield Township, north of Springfield and Bethel, and east of Pike Township. The surface in general is an elevated table-land, beautiful and very fertile valleys extend
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In the year 1858, a levy was made on all the taxable property of Springfield Township and a part of Moorefield Township for the purpose of building a schoolhouse to meet the demands of the district, and $1,200 was expended in the erection of a brick house 30x45 feet. This building has since been made higher, and a room added on the east side.
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.
BuiltDavid Crabill House is built
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyThe U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Moorefield Township.
1986Springfield sheet · 1:100,000U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Moorefield Township.
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 Moorefield Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Moorefield Township is more historic than 36% of U.S. towns, #786 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.
Two places: the David Crabill House (listed 1975) and the Kenton-Hunt Farm (1980).
2% of Moorefield Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±1.7 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 (4), Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (2), 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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