Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 44% of U.S. towns · #724 of 993 in Ohio. What drives it
Below: 1 old photo or paper, maps from 1906 on, and the census since 1920.
The North Kingsville post office opened in 1866, the earliest record of the town by name.
More historic than 44% 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 Kingsville is more historic than 44% of U.S. towns, #724 of 993 in Ohio. 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 Kingsville’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 Kingsville’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of North Kingsville. 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 Kingsville.
North Kingsville’s post office has been open since 1866.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of North Kingsville yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
North Kingsville is a village in Ashtabula County, Ohio, United States. The population was 2,742 at the 2020 census.
Its first post office opened in 1866. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 2,923 to 2,742 (-6%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention North Kingsville, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Soon after the Lake Shore Railroad was put in operation, the company located, at North Kingsville a large repair shop, wherein all of the iron and steel repair work for the system was done. Mr. Callow’s father was one of the foremen in that shop, and the son worked there for some years before it was shut down, in 1876.
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A church edifice was erected in North Kingsville, near the depot, in 1877, not wholly completed, wherein any minister of the gospel is at liberty to hold service who chooses so to do, and will receive the voluntary offerings of the membership for services thus rendered.
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his return to North Kingsville, Mr. Crowther opened his present place of business. He handles a fine line of groceries and general merchandise, and also has the postoffice in connection.
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.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
In the archivePop InnOne decade in the archive so far: the 1980s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on North Kingsville’s page.
Retake this view · +15Between 598 and 2,939 people in every census since 1920.
11 censuses, 1920–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on North Kingsville’s Wikipedia page.
Nobody well known was born in North Kingsville itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The North Kingsville post office opened in 1866, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
North Kingsville is more historic than 44% of U.S. towns, #724 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.
24% of North Kingsville’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±7.1 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1970.
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 (6), 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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