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More historic than 26% of U.S. towns · #876 of 993 in Ohio. What drives it
Most of Pleasant Run was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1974. Below: maps from 1915 on and old-book passages.
The Pleasant Run post office opened in 1846, the earliest record of the town by name.
More historic than 26% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Pleasant Run is more historic than 26% of U.S. towns, #876 of 993 in Ohio. Its age holds 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 Pleasant Run’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: the first post office (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 Pleasant Run’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Pleasant Run. 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 Pleasant Run.
From Wikipedia’s history of Pleasant Run.
Pleasant Run takes its name from a stream. A Pleasant Run Post Office was established on March 4, 1846, and discontinued on February 15, 1907, with mail service being transferred to the post office in Mount Healthy. Pleasant Run was described in the 1940 American Guide Series as a rural village with 39 inhabitants.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention Pleasant Run, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Pleasant Run Baptist Church was a flourishing organization during the pioneer days. Its place of worship was a frame building at the Pleasant Run burying ground in Section 25. The organization became extinct sixty years ago.
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.
Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Nobody well known was born in Pleasant Run itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The Pleasant Run post office opened in 1846, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
Pleasant Run is more historic than 26% of U.S. towns, #876 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.
0.0% of Pleasant Run’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±1.0 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1974.
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 Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps 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.
