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More historic than 84% of U.S. towns · #245 of 993 in Ohio. What drives it
Its Register listing is the James P. Hidley Cottage. Its Register listing is the James P. Hidley Cottage. Below: 2 old photos and papers and maps from 1955 on.
The Reily Township post office opened in 1825, the earliest record of the town by name. Seven smaller post offices, Reily (1825), Saint Charles (1850) and Bunkerhill (1852), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
More historic than 84% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Reily Township is more historic than 84% of U.S. towns, #245 of 993 in Ohio. All 3 inputs are above most U.S. towns; its age 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 Reily Township’s 18.5 sits above most of its state (80% of Ohio towns have fewer) while its 5 historic buildings outnumber those of 70% 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.
Seven 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 Reily Township’s history is told.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
In the archiveCombination Atlas Map of Butler County Ohio, 1875: Compiled, Drawn and Published from Per…
In the archive1925 Plat Book of Butler County, Ohio
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyFrom Wikipedia’s history of Reily Township.
It was the eighth in order of creation, erected from St. Clair Township by the Butler County Commissioners on December 7, 1807, with these boundaries.
The first election of township officers was at Henry Burget's home on January 2, 1808.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
2 decades in the archive, from the 1870s to the 1920s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Reily 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 Reily Township.
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Reily Township’s page.
Retake this view · +15The 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.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The Reily Township post office opened in 1825, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
Reily Township is more historic than 84% of U.S. towns, #245 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 James P. Hidley Cottage (listed 1980).
18% of Reily Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±10.1 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1973.
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 (8), the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, 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.
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