Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 78% of U.S. towns. What drives it
Its Register listing is the St. John Catholic Church and Parish Hall.
More historic than 78% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Pusheta Township is more historic than 78% 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 Pusheta Township’s 18.6 sits above most of its state (81% of Ohio towns have fewer) while its 2 historic buildings outnumber those of 60% 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 Pusheta Township’s history is told.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Pusheta Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Pusheta Township is one of the fourteen townships of Auglaize County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 1,269 people in the township.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 1,301 to 1,269 (-2%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
2025St. Petersburg Mother Church Memorial, Pusheta Townsh…
2015Map of Auglaize County Ohio Highlighting Pusheta Town…Map
2010Pusheta Township hall
2010Cemetery at the site of Petersburg, Ohio
2009St. John Catholic Church and Parish Hall
2009Fryburg in Pusheta Township
2007Pusheta Township, Auglaize County, Ohio
2006Pusheta Auglaize
2006OHMap-doton-Freyburg
2005OHMap-doton-PushetaThe 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 Pusheta Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Another post office, Fryburg, 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).
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Pusheta Township is more historic than 78% 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.
One place: the St. John Catholic Church and Parish Hall (listed 1979).
17% of Pusheta Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±6.1 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1979.
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 (10), the National Register of Historic Places (1), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
