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New Haven Township’s post office opened in 1814, and 23% of its homes were built before 1940

More historic than 64% of U.S. towns. What drives it

Below: 1 old photo or paper and maps from 1915 on.

1814first post office
0on the National Register
23%homes built before 1940
1old photo or paper
Add an old photoShare a memory
From New Haven Township’s archive · credits on each photo
Quick answers

How New Haven Township began

When was New Haven Township founded?

1814

The New Haven Township post office opened in 1814, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Newhaven (1895), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 2,409212 years

How historic is New Haven Township?

B

More historic than 64% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.

What drives the grade ↓
Founding year: the first New Haven Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).
History grade

What drives New Haven Township’s History grade

On its age, its old homes and the National Register, New Haven Township is more historic than 64% of U.S. towns. Its share of homes from before 1940 holds the grade up; its National Register listings pull it down.

B
HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of New Haven Township’s overall grade.
Founding era1814, from the first post office: founded 1776–1849, an older era than 75% of U.S. townsA−Homes built before 194023.3% of homes (±8.8) · typical OH town 14.5% · U.S. 8.4%A−National RegisterNo listings counted · typical OH town 2.9 per 10,000 · U.S. 2.4C−
All U.S. towns we grade (21,289)Ahead of 64%
NewerOlder

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 Haven Township’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 A−. The pre-1940 share is a Census survey estimate (±8.8 points). The founding year is the first post office, not a stated founding date.

Founding year: the first post office (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 Haven Township’s past

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

A history waiting to be writtenOnly 1 old photo is in the public archives. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages1 post office opened and closed inside today’s New Haven Township, and 4 old place names are still on the map.On the map since 19154 editions of the USGS map, 1915 to 1972. Watch New Haven Township change.Deep rootsA post office since 1814: 212 years of New Haven Township.
★ What stands out · Help out

Start New Haven Township’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how New Haven Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
1 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Retake an old viewInstitutional structures by Gilbert.] […: stand where they stood+15Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

Another post office, Newhaven, opened and closed inside today’s town.

New Haven
1814–today
Newhaven
1895–1906
18101920today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Coble VillageHuron Valley Mobile Home ParkNew HavenWillard Mobile Home Park
Gone or out of use
Guinea SchoolschoolSchool Number 4school
4cemeteries and burying grounds inside New Haven Township
Fullmer FarmGuinea CornersMaple GroveNew Haven

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

On the map

New Haven Township on the map, 1915 to 1972

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

New Haven Township on the 1915 USGS mapNew Haven Township on the 1944 USGS mapNew Haven Township on the 1960 USGS mapNew Haven Township on the 1972 USGS map1915Norwalk 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 New Haven Township.

The story so far

New Haven Township, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of New Haven Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

New Haven Township is one of the nineteen townships of Huron County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2020 census the population of the township was 2,409.

Its first post office opened in 1814. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 2,621 to 2,409 (-8%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline

New Haven Township, 1814 to 1915

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1814Post officeThe New Haven post office opens
  3. 1895Post officeThe Newhaven post office opens
  4. 20th century
  5. 1906Post officeThe Newhaven post office closes
  6. 1912In the archiveInstitutional structures by Gilbert.] [Sketches
  7. 1915On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

New Haven Township, decade by decade

One decade in the archive so far: the 1910s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.

1910s1 item
Institutional structures by Gilbert.] [Sketches1912Institutional structures by Gilbert.] [Sketches
1920s–1990snothing yet
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.
Add from your album
Today4 recent
Map of Huron County Ohio Highlighting New Haven Township2015Map of Huron County Ohio Highlighting New Haven Towns…MapOHMap-doton-New Haven2007OHMap-doton-New HavenOHMap-doton-Celeryville2007OHMap-doton-CeleryvilleNew Haven Huron2006New Haven Huron
Then & now

Stand where they stood

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.

Institutional structures by Gilbert.] [Sketches
Retake this viewInstitutional structures by Gilbert.] [Sketches, 1912

Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on New Haven Township’s page.

Retake this view · +15
Famous people

Famous people close to New Haven Township

Nobody well known was born in New Haven Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Larry SiegfriedAmerican basketball player · b. 1939
Robert Joseph BakerAmerican Catholic bishop · b. 1944
Albert Rhys WilliamsAmerican journalist, author of memoirs about th… · b. 1883
Earl Cory MichenerAmerican politician · b. 1876
William L. FiesingerAmerican politician · b. 1877
Hosea TownsendAmerican politician · b. 1840
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

WillardIts storyCRipley TownshipIts storyB+Richmond TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townGreenfield Township1 historic placeB+

Questions about New Haven Township’s history

What year was New Haven Township founded?

The New Haven Township post office opened in 1814, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

How does New Haven Township rank for history?

New Haven Township is more historic than 64% 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.

How old are the homes in New Haven Township?

23% of New Haven Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±8.8 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1969.

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Sources

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 (4), the Library of Congress (1), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.