Founding year: Wikidata. First post office: 1818.The full story ↓
History grade
What drives New Carlisle’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, New Carlisle is more historic than 53% of U.S. towns, #621 of 993 in Ohio. Its age holds the grade up; its National Register listings pull it down.
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HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of New Carlisle’s overall grade.
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 New Carlisle’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.
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 (±4.4 points). Two sources give 1810.
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 New Carlisle’s past
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New Carlisle was originally called Monroe, and under the latter name was laid out in 1810. The present name is a transfer from Carlisle, Pennsylvania, the birthplace of some of the first settlers. A post office called New Carlisle has been in operation since 1828. New Carlisle was incorporated as a village in 1831.
On June 21, 1933, the infamous John Dillinger committed his first bank robbery, taking $10,000 from the New Carlisle National Bank, which occupied the building which still stands at the southeast corner of Main Street and Jefferson Street (state routes 235 and 571) in New Carlisle.
Passages that mention New Carlisle, cut from the printed page as they were published.
20th century history of Springfield, and Clark County, Ohio1908 · page 92Read the page →
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actual settler in Clark County. It is known that in 1790 he was living at the forks of Honey Creek a short distance above the present village of New Carlisle. How long prior to that time he had lived there is not known. Some writers seem to think that there is some doubt about his settlement, but Mr. Young who wrote
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A standard history of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio1922 · page 133Read the page →
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house, one Methodist Reform meeting house, and one Seceder meeting house, all of which are well attended," showing that some of the earlier denominations were not then active, and contemporary accounts show about as much church activity in New Carlisle and South Charleston as in Springfield. Rhodes, Gatch and Williams were early ministers at South Charleston, and in 1847 Nat Moss, who "wagoned" to Cincinnati, unloaded the first church bell there — presumably the first in Clark County, and for many years it pealed forth its messages of joy and sorrow, its
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A standard history of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio1922 · page 237Read the page →
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Troy and Piqua and the Springfield and South Charleston roads. New Carlisle is connected by a spur with the Dayton line, although its citizens must go a mile from town to obtain the service; the cars once ran into New Carlisle, but when the trestle bridge across Honey Creek was condemned in 1912, the cars stopped at the New Carlisle cemetery. Some of these lines have been operated at a loss, and the companies seek to discontinue the service. They are operated by receivers, and deficit rather than surplus indicates the loss in operation, even the Spring-
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The history of Clark County, Ohio, containing a history of the county1881Read the page →
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New Carlisle was laid out in 1 S10, by "William Eeyburn ; the first location was about eighty rods west of the present town, and was called York. 1 n 1 8 .1 2. the present plat was laid out. and called Monroe. In 1828, the name was changed to New Carlisle, and the census of 1SS0 gives it 872 inhabitants. The village is located on the west bank of Honey Creek, about twelve miles west of Springfield, and about sixteen miles northeast of Dayton; the streets are at right angles, and the free use of gravel, which is abundant and easily obtained, has made them first-class.
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Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
By decade
New Carlisle, decade by decade
One decade in the archive so far: the 1930s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
In 1810, according to Wikidata. New Carlisle’s post office opened in 1818, and the census of 1830 counted 343 people here.
How does New Carlisle rank for history?
New Carlisle is more historic than 53% of U.S. towns, #621 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.
How old are the homes in New Carlisle?
13% of New Carlisle’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±4.4 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1966.
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 the Library of Congress (5), Wikidata (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.
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