Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 69% of U.S. towns · #436 of 993 in Ohio. What drives it
Its Register listings are the Thumann Log House, the Ursuline Center and the Daniel Murphy Log House. Most of Perry Township was built recently: 8% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1989. Below: maps from 1917 on and old-book passages.
More historic than 69% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Perry Township is more historic than 69% of U.S. towns, #436 of 993 in Ohio. Its National Register listings hold the grade up; its share of homes from before 1940 pulls 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 Perry Township’s 25.7 sits above most of its state (83% of Ohio towns have fewer) while its 12 historic buildings outnumber those of 77% 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.
Four 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).
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Perry Township’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Perry 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 Perry Township.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Perry Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Perry Township is one of the sixteen townships of Brown County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 4,674 people in the township.
Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 4,735 in 2010, 4,674 in 2020.
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Perry Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
purpose, these grants constituting the present site and property of the Ursuline Convent at St. Martin’s. About the same time, a tract of 100 acres was given by William Bamber, for the purpose of erecting a church in the southwestern part of Perry Township. A log house was accordingly built, and, soon after its completion, the few faithful Catholics then in the settlement were made happy by the presence of a priest in their midst.
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purpose, these grants constituting the present site and property of the Ursuline Convent at St. Martin's. About the same time, a tract of 100 acres was given by William Bamber, for the purpose of erecting a church in the southwestern part of Perry Township. A log house was accordingly built, and, soon after its completion, the few faithful Catholics then in the settlement were made happy by the presence of a priest in their midst.
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“I do not believe there were any Indians in Perry Township at the first settlement, perhaps not in the present century; at least, I never heard my father speak of it, but he would often allude to his experience with them in Virginia, in Chillicothe, Ohio, and other places. The township was rather an out-of-the-way place, or middle ground, only used at times by an occasional straggler. I have heard him talk of a few bears. but deer, wolves and wild turkeys were plenty, even in my day."
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
BuiltUrsuline Center is builtThe 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 Perry Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Perry Township is more historic than 69% of U.S. towns, #436 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.
Three places: the Thumann Log House (listed 1975), the Ursuline Center (1976) and the Daniel Murphy Log House (1982).
8% of Perry Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±4.0 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1989.
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 (4), the National Register of Historic Places (3), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, 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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