Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 67% of U.S. towns. What drives it
Below: maps from 1912 on and old-book passages.
The North Industry post office opened in 1832, the earliest record of the town by name.
More historic than 67% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, North Industry is more historic than 67% of U.S. towns. Its share of homes from before 1940 holds the grade up; its National Register listings pull it down.
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 North Industry’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.
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 →
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 North Industry’s history is told.
From Wikipedia’s history of North Industry.
A post office called North Industry was established in 1832, and remains in operation. Early industries at North Industry included a blast furnace and a watermill.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention North Industry, cut from the printed page as they were published.
In addition to Canton, the township includes the village of North Industry, on the west bank of the Ximishillen. near the southern line of the township, a flourishing little village, in the immediate vicinity of which is Browning's mill, doing a thriving business, under the management of Mr. 0. F. Browning, a resident of Canton. In the town.ship. outside of the
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
Pastor ; he serves besides a congregation at New Berlin in Plain Township, and one newly organized, with a neat frame church lately built at North Industry in this township. A small brick Lutheran Church has also been erected about a half-mile north of North Industry, on the Canton road, which though occupied a few times for divine worship is not
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.
Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of North Industry. 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 North Industry.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The North Industry post office opened in 1832, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
North Industry is more historic than 67% 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.
27% of North Industry’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±16.2 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1963.
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 Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps 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.
