Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 85% of U.S. towns · #236 of 993 in Ohio. What drives it
Its Register listings are the Mt. Healthy Public School and the Main Theatre. Below: 1 old photo or paper, maps from 1914 on, and the census since 1900.
Mount Healthy dates its founding to 1817 (Wikidata and Wikipedia’s history agree). The census first counted it in 1900.
More historic than 85% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Mount Healthy is more historic than 85% of U.S. towns, #236 of 993 in Ohio. All 3 inputs are above most U.S. towns; its share of homes from before 1940 ranks highest and its National Register listings 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 Mount Healthy’s 2.9 sits near the middle of its state (56% of Ohio towns have fewer) while its 2 listings outnumber those of 60% of U.S. towns.
Founding year: Wikidata (other dates in Quick answers). 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 Mount Healthy’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Mount Healthy. 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 Mount Healthy.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Born hereElizabeth Nourse is born here
Born herePee Wee Hunt is born here
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyFrom Wikipedia’s history of Mount Healthy.
Mount Healthy was founded in 1817 as the village of Mount Pleasant. In 1850, the village renamed itself "Mount Healthy", following a cholera epidemic, in which many of its citizens survived while those in the surrounding territory did not. The village became a city in 1951.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention Mount Healthy, cut from the printed page as they were published.
The Mount Healthy Catholic Church was founded in 1854, when, mainly through the efforts and liberality of Joseph Hechinger, a church was built. Until the year 1865 the pastors of neighboring parishes officiated here, viz.. Revs. F. J. Pabisch, D. D. , J. C. Krflmcr, A. Hechinger, Otto Jair, Anselmus Koch, A. Becker, J. Rosswog, Miettinger and H. Boehmann. Rev. G. Nordmyer, the first resident pastor, assumed charge October 25, 1865, and began the erection of the present church. It was completed by his successor, Rev. H. Johanning, who was pastor from December 2, 1865, to May 1, 1881. The church is a brick structure, 90x45 feet, with tower
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Ann Maria, Lucretia, Florien, Monroe, John Murray, Eliza Jane, Lucinda Ellen, and Joseph W. Peter and Lucinda have died. Mr. Laboyteaux carried on the cooper business in the town of Mount Healthy for almost half a century, and has acquired a good property. Although now becoming quite advanced in years, he is well preserved, and looks a hale old man.
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 Mount Healthy’s page.
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National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Between 1,354 and 7,580 people in every census since 1900.
13 censuses, 1900–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Mount Healthy’s Wikipedia page.
Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.
Mount Healthy had its own post office from 1828 to 1913.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
In 1817, according to Wikidata and Wikipedia’s history of the town. Mount Healthy’s post office opened in 1828, and the census of 1900 counted 1,354 people here.
Mount Healthy is more historic than 85% of U.S. towns, #236 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 Mt. Healthy Public School (listed 1985) and the Main Theatre (2017).
29% of Mount Healthy’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±8.5 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1956.
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 Library of Congress (1), Wikidata (2), the National Register of Historic Places (2), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), 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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2009
