Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 97% of U.S. towns. What drives it
1 place in town is on the National Register. Below: maps from 1910 on and old-book passages.
More historic than 97% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Morgan Township is more historic than 97% of U.S. towns. All 2 inputs put Morgan Township near the top nationally; its National Register listings ranks highest.
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 Morgan Township’s 131 sits above most of its state (94% of Ohio towns have fewer) while its 35 historic buildings outnumber those of 83% 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 Morgan Township’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Morgan 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 Morgan Township.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Morgan Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Morgan Township is one of the fourteen townships of Morgan County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 2,287 people in the township.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 2,562 to 2,287 (-11%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Morgan Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
This township was the latest formed in Morgan County. It was set off in 1839, its territory being principally taken from Morgan Township, with the addition of a few sections from Deerfield. On the list of pioneer voters in Morgan Township, given in Chapter XVIII, will be found the names of
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He also held a considerable body of land situated in Morgan Township, near the village, lie induced Jacob Kahler, the first settler of McConnelsville, to make the first improvement in the village, and was always zealously interested in promoting the prosperity of the town and county. In 1827 he
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.
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 Morgan Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Morgan Township is more historic than 97% 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.
30% of Morgan Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±4.5 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1962.
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 (2), 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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