Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 40% of U.S. towns · #747 of 993 in Ohio. What drives it
Its Register listing is the Bordner House. Most of Perry Township was built recently: 7% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1965. Below: maps from 1901 on and old-book passages.
More historic than 40% 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 40% of U.S. towns, #747 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 0.4 sits near the middle of its state (47% of Ohio towns have fewer) while its 1 listings outnumber those of 51% 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.
Three 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 seventeen townships of Stark County, Ohio, United States. It is an urban township; the 2020 census found 28,389 people in the township.
Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 28,353 in 2010, 28,389 in 2020.
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Perry Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
a Mr. Stevens taught a school in the fall of 1808. and al)out the same year Bethlehem Township had its first school. The first select school in Perry Township was taught by the late Gen. Cyrus Spink. .\ log schoolhouse was built in Jackson Township very early and was occupied by a school, taught by Thomas Carmichael.
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
Pursuant to the order of the Commissioners, the voters of Perry Township met in Kendal, now the Fourth Ward of the city of Massillon, on the last Saturda}' in February, 1814, and elected the township officers, but who were elected to the particular otlices, cannot be ascertained, as no person is now living who was present at the election, nor is there a record to
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
2024Perry HS(1)7-15-24 thumbnail IMG 2029
2018Saint Joan of Arc Catholic Church, Perry Township, St…
2016Perry Township, Stark County, Ohio Police Department
2016Perry High School Cosmetology Building
2015Map of Stark County Ohio Highlighting Perry TownshipMap
2009Welcome to Perry Township
2008OHMap-doton-Richville
2008Bordner House (Canton, OH)
2004OHMap-doton-Perry HeightsThe 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 40% of U.S. towns, #747 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.
One place: the Bordner House (listed 1978).
7% of Perry Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±1.7 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1965.
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 (9), the National Register of Historic Places (1), 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.
