Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 93% of U.S. towns. What drives it
Its Register listings are the Umsted Farm and the Pleasant Ridge United Methodist Church and Cemetery. Below: maps from 1906 on and old-book passages.
More historic than 93% 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 Township is more historic than 93% 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 Pleasant Township’s 106 sits above most of its state (93% 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.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Pleasant 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).
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Pleasant Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Pleasant Township is one of the fifteen townships of Seneca County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 1,477 people in the township.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 1,635 to 1,477 (-10%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Pleasant Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
From this date forward to 1849, the records of Pleasant Township are defective or wanting; so that the possibility of making an authentic list of township officials for those years is too remote to attempt such a list. To the courtesy of A. L. Abbott, the present township clerk, the writer is indebted for the roll of officials fi'om 1850 to the present time.
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
PRIOR to 1832, and dating back to 1820, this division of the county was known as Town 8 north, Range 14 east. In the latter year it was siu'- veyed into quarter sections by J. T. Worthington, who made his headquarters at James Montgomery ' s home in Pleasant Township. In June 1832 the commissioners granted the prayer of petitioners, residents of what is now Liberty, asking to be set off from Seneca Township, and organized. In April, 1833, the first meeting was held. The petition was presented by John L.
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.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Pleasant 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 Pleasant Township.
The 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 Pleasant Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Pleasant Township is more historic than 93% 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.
Two places: the Umsted Farm (listed 1979) and the Pleasant Ridge United Methodist Church and Cemetery (1993).
25% of Pleasant Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±11.3 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 Wikimedia Commons (5), the National Register of Historic Places (2), 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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