Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: Nyttend · Public domainMore historic than 86% of U.S. towns · #218 of 993 in Ohio. What drives it
Its Register listings are the Benjamin Iddings Log House. Below: maps from 1911 on and old-book passages.
More historic than 86% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Newton Township is more historic than 86% of U.S. towns, #218 of 993 in Ohio. All 2 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 Newton Township’s 5.7 sits above most of its state (66% of Ohio towns have fewer) while its 2 listings outnumber those of 60% 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 Newton Township’s history is told.
Old hamlets and crossroads still carry their names on the map.
Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Newton 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 Newton Township.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Newton Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Newton Township is one of the twelve townships of Miami County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 3,516 people in the township.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 3,399 to 3,516 (+3%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Newton Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Aaron AVellbaum attended school in Newton Township in his boyhood, and remained with his father until 1851. and then accompanied the family to Illinois. He was not satisfied, however, in the new surroundings, and after sixteen months came back to Newton Township, and has lived in this locality ever since. He worked for dif-
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up a saw-mill ou Pauther Creek aud George Freshour went iuto the same business. Newton Township was surely "moving along." In the midst of these growing industries the War of 1812 broke out, and for a time business was stifled. A dark cloud hung over the township, but when it was dissi-
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this sketch is the third child of her last marriage ; he ha* made agriculture his occupation, and the thrifty appearance of his fine, large farm, his buildings and other improvements, indicate success in this direction ; in 1850, he located in Covington, in this county, .but afterward moved to a farm in Newton Township near Pleasant Hill, where he lived two years, then came to his present place, where he has since resided ; he is one of the successful farmers of Newton Township, now operating a farm of 172 acres. He and wife have been consistent members of the German Baptist Church for a number of years. Mr. Shellaberger is a
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 Newton Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Newton Township is more historic than 86% of U.S. towns, #218 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.
2 listings: 1 building, among them the Benjamin Iddings Log House (listed 1976, the first).
30% of Newton Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±5.2 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1967.
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 National Register of Historic Places (1), 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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