Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 65% of U.S. towns. What drives it
Below: maps from 1895 on and the census since 1850.
North Lewisburg dates its founding to 1826 (Wikipedia’s history). The census first counted it in 1850.
More historic than 65% 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 Lewisburg is more historic than 65% 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 Lewisburg’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: Wikipedia (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 Lewisburg’s history is told.
Fire insurance maps drew every building, what it was made of and what it was used for, so insurers could price the risk of fire. Pick a year, then a sheet.
1895Sheet 1 of 3Sanborn Map Company, via the Library of Congress. Editions published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of North Lewisburg. 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 Lewisburg.
From Wikipedia’s history of North Lewisburg.
North Lewisburg was platted in 1826, and incorporated as a village in 1844. A post office has been in operation at North Lewisburg since 1845.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention North Lewisburg, cut from the printed page as they were published.
burg, through which it wends its peaceful course on it way to the bosom of the deep. Pleasant Run is another beautiful stream, running nearly parallel with Spain’s Creek, deriving peculiar significance from the fact that it forms the dividing line between North Lewisburg and Woodstock precincts. The northwest corner of the township is crossed by the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio Railroad, formerly the Atlantic & Great Western Railroad, which passes through North Lewisburg. The township is again crossed a little south of the center by a railroad, this being the Pan . Handle Railroad, and
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
who came at that time, living. Samuel Black and his son, Peter Black, arrived in the year 1810. These families effected permanent settlements in the northern part of the township, and many of them in the neighborhood of the present site of North Lewisburg, where many of their descendants now reside. Some years later the following-named persons, principally form the New England States, arrived and settled in the vicinity of Woodstock: Thoihas Erwin, Reuben, Henry and Jacob Fairchild, Erastus Burnham, Anson Howard, Pearl Howard, Svlvanus Smith, John McDonald, Stephen Cranston and
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 SurveyGrew from 302 people in 1850 to 1,636 in 2020, 5 times over.
18 censuses, 1850–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on North Lewisburg’s Wikipedia page.
Nobody well known was born in North Lewisburg itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
North Lewisburg’s post office has been open since 1845.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
In 1826, according to Wikipedia’s history of the town. North Lewisburg’s post office opened in 1845, and the census of 1850 counted 302 people here.
North Lewisburg is more historic than 65% 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.
24% of North Lewisburg’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±9.6 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1983.
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 (2), Wikipedia, 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, Sanborn fire insurance maps (Library of Congress) 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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