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History · Munroe Falls

Munroe Falls dates to 1838, and 1 of its places is on the National Register

More historic than 58% of U.S. towns · #551 of 993 in Ohio. What drives it

Most of Munroe Falls was built recently: 4% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1976. Its Register listing is the Thornton-Guise Kitchen And House. Below: maps from 1906 on and the census since 1930.

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How Munroe Falls began

When was Munroe Falls founded?

1838

Munroe Falls dates its founding to 1838 (Wikidata and Wikipedia’s history agree). The census first counted it in 1930.

First census: 302 in 19302020 census: 5,044188 years

How historic is Munroe Falls?

B

More historic than 58% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.

What drives the grade ↓
Founding year: Wikidata; Wikipedia’s history section gives the same year. First post office: 1879.The full story ↓
History grade

What drives Munroe Falls’ History grade

On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Munroe Falls is more historic than 58% of U.S. towns, #551 of 993 in Ohio. Its age holds the grade up; its share of homes from before 1940 pulls it down.

B
HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Munroe Falls’ overall grade.
Founding era1838, from Wikidata: founded 1776–1849, an older era than 75% of U.S. townsA−Homes built before 19404.4% of homes (±4.3) · typical OH town 14.5% · U.S. 8.4%CNational Register1 listing, 2 historic buildings, 4.0 per 10,000 residents · typical OH town 2.9 · U.S. 2.4B
All U.S. towns we grade (21,289)Ahead of 58%
NewerOlder
Ohio towns of 2,500+ (993)Ahead of 45%

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 Munroe Falls’ 4.0 sits near the middle of its state (61% of Ohio towns have fewer) while its 2 historic buildings outnumber those of 60% of U.S. towns.

How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from C+ to B+. The pre-1940 share is a Census survey estimate (±4.3 points). Two sources give 1838.

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 →

What stands out about Munroe Falls’ past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Munroe Falls are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.On the map since 19065 editions of the USGS map, 1906 to 1994. Watch Munroe Falls change.Deep rootsEstablished in 1838: 188 years of Munroe Falls.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Munroe Falls’s history is told.

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On the map

Munroe Falls on the map, 1906 to 1994

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Munroe Falls. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Munroe Falls on the 1906 USGS mapMunroe Falls on the 1953 USGS mapMunroe Falls on the 1963 USGS mapMunroe Falls on the 1970 USGS mapMunroe Falls on the 1994 USGS map1906Kent sheet · 1:62,500

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Munroe Falls.

Timeline

Munroe Falls, 1838 to 1906

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1838
    FoundingMunroe Falls is established
  3. 1859Born hereGeorge Elbert Burr is born here
  4. 1879Post officeThe Munroe Falls post office opens
  5. 20th century
  6. 1906On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
The story

How Munroe Falls came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Munroe Falls.

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Like much of the Connecticut Western Reserve, the area that makes up present-day Munroe Falls was previously inhabited by various tribes of American Indians. When the Western Reserve began being surveyed in 1796, what is now Munroe Falls was mostly in the southern part of the survey township Town 3, Range 10 (later to be Stow Township), then a part of Washington County before being placed in the new Jefferson County the following year. In 1800, it was made part of Trumbull County, which followed the boundaries of the Western Reserve, and in 1808, the area was made part of Portage County.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

From the old history books

What they wrote about Munroe Falls in 1908

Passages that mention Munroe Falls, cut from the printed page as they were published.

ject of this sketch, and son of the Philip above mentioned, attended school in the Big Springs school house at Cuyahoga Falls and later continued his studies at Munroe Falls. He remained on the old homestead until his marriage, at which time he purchased a property at Munroe Falls, where he lived f…
Centennial history of Summit County, Ohio1908 · page 431Read the page →
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ject of this sketch, and son of the Philip above mentioned, attended school in the Big Springs school house at Cuyahoga Falls and later continued his studies at Munroe Falls. He remained on the old homestead until his marriage, at which time he purchased a property at Munroe Falls, where he lived for eleven years, being employed there in a paper

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.

By decade

Munroe Falls, decade by decade

Today2 recent
Brust 5-23-24 thumbnail IMG 93162024Brust 5-23-24 thumbnail IMG 9316Coke Express2006Coke Express
On the National Register

1 historic place in Munroe Falls

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
2
each building in a district counts
first listed
1976
Thornton-Guise Kitchen And House
Thornton-Guise Kitchen And House
Buildings

Architectural styles listings

Queen Anne1
Thornton-Guise Kitchen And HouseQueen Anne

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

People over time

Munroe Falls, census by census

05001,0001,5002,0002,5003,0003,5004,0004,5005,0005,5006,00019401960198020002020Peak: 5,359

Between 302 and 5,359 people in every census since 1930.

10 censuses, 1930–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Munroe Falls’ Wikipedia page.

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Tallmadge1 historic placeBStow1 historic placeBCuyahoga Falls12 historic placesA

Questions about Munroe Falls’ history

What year was Munroe Falls founded?

In 1838, according to Wikidata and Wikipedia’s history of the town. Munroe Falls’ post office opened in 1879, and the census of 1930 counted 302 people here.

How does Munroe Falls rank for history?

Munroe Falls is more historic than 58% of U.S. towns, #551 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.

What is on the National Register in Munroe Falls?

One place: the Thornton-Guise Kitchen And House (listed 1976).

How old are the homes in Munroe Falls?

4% of Munroe Falls’ homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±4.3 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1976.

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Where this page comes from

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), Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (1), 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.