Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 65% of U.S. towns · #487 of 993 in Ohio. What drives it
Below: maps from 1909 on and the census since 1820.
Paris Township dates its founding to 1818 (Wikidata). The census first counted it in 1820.
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, Paris Township is more historic than 65% of U.S. towns, #487 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 Paris 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.
Founding year: Wikidata (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 Paris Township’s history is told.
Two other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Paris 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 Paris Township.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Paris Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Paris Township is one of the seventeen townships of Stark County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 5,743 people in the township.
Paris Township was established in 1818. Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 5,728 in 2010, 5,743 in 2020.
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Paris Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Much of the early history of Paris Township is very closelv connected with the little village of Paris, laid out in an early da\', and will be given under that head. The first religious meetings were held then; and the first church organized there, also the first store and first post ottice were kept within its limits, together with many other items of interest that occurred
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
So far as our researches have gone, the first settlement made in what is now Paris Township by a white man was by Rudolph Bair, in the fall of 180(). He is prominently mentioned in the history of Osnaburg Township, as his residence was in that division of the county, until the formation of Paris Township. He was a man of considerable native intelligence, 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 Survey
2016Stereum ostrea (Blume & T. Nees) Fr 649756
2016Stark Bicentennial Barn
2016St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, New Franklin,…
2016Great Trail Community Church
2016Graffiti on Ohio 183
2016Christ Memorial Church, Robertsville, Ohio
2015Mycena leaiana (Berk.) Sacc 527542
2015Mycena leaiana (Berk.) Sacc 527541
2015Mycena leaiana (Berk.) Sacc 527540
2015Map of Stark County Ohio Highlighting Paris TownshipMap
2014Mycena leaiana (Berk.) Sacc 423609
2014Mycena leaiana (Berk.) Sacc 423608
2014Mycena leaiana (Berk.) Sacc 423607
2013Tubifera ferruginosa (Batsch) Gmelin 342820
2013Tubifera ferruginosa (Batsch) Gmelin 342819
2008OHMap-doton-New Franklin Stark County
2007OHMap-doton-Robertsville
2007OHMap-doton-ParisBetween 553 and 6,038 people in every census since 1820.
20 censuses, 1820–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Paris Township’s Wikipedia page.
Nobody well known was born in Paris Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
In 1818, according to Wikidata. Paris Township’s post office opened in 1822, and the census of 1820 counted 553 people here.
Paris Township is more historic than 65% of U.S. towns, #487 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 Paris Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±7.6 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1960.
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 (18), 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.
