Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 82% of U.S. towns. What drives it
4 places in town are on the National Register. Below: maps from 1914 on and old-book passages.
More historic than 82% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Pickaway Township is more historic than 82% of U.S. towns. All 2 inputs are above most U.S. towns; its National Register listings ranks highest and its share of homes from before 1940 lowest.
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 Pickaway Township’s 108 sits above most of its state (93% of Ohio towns have fewer) while its 18 historic buildings outnumber those of 79% 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 Pickaway Township’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Pickaway 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 Pickaway Township.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Pickaway Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Pickaway Township is one of the fifteen townships of Pickaway County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 2,036 people in the township.
Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 2,041 in 2010, 2,036 in 2020.
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Pickaway Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Township, Pickaway County. Stephen paid the Pickaway County Levy tax from 1818 until 1825. With the exception of 1820 when he was in Pickaway Township, he was listed in Saltcreek Township for the levy tax. He has not been found in the 1820 census.
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 SurveyThe 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 Pickaway Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Pickaway Township is more historic than 82% 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.
4 listings: 4 buildings, among them the Mount Oval (listed 1974, the first). 18 historic buildings in all.
13% of Pickaway Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±7.7 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1987.
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 (12), the National Register of Historic Places (4), 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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