Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 38% of U.S. towns. What drives it
Below: maps from 1903 on and old-book passages.
More historic than 38% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Richland Township is more historic than 38% of U.S. towns. Its share of homes from before 1940 holds the grade up; its National Register listings pull 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 Richland Township’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: 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 Richland Township’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Richland 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 Richland Township.
Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Richland Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Richland Township is one of the fifteen townships of Marion County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 1,784 people in the township.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 1,635 to 1,784 (+9%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Richland Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Richland Township has a few men who have been somewhat connected with the political history of the township and county. Among them is Michael Jacoby, who was elected Township Clerk in the year 1830, which position he held fifteen successive years. In 1838, he was (elected Justice of the Peace, and this office he held for twenty-one successive jears. Mr.
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Richland Township has a few men who have been somewhat connected with the political history of the township and county. Among them is Michael Jacoby, who was elected Township Clerk in the year 1890, which position he held fifteen successive years. In 1838, he was jelected Justice of the Peace, and this office he held for twenty-one successive years. Mr.
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land Township. Mrs. Strine died July ——, 1848, aged sixty-seven, and his widow followed in 1845. Our subject was reared on a farm in Pennsylvania and lived there until April, 1831, when he came to Ohio and bought 142 acres in Richland Township; here he resided till 1856, when he bought 144 acres on the east side of the Whetstone River. His farm in Richland Township was all woodland except three acres. He cleared sixty acres of that, however, and forty acres of his present farm. He assisted in constructing several roads and building two schoolhouses and the Rich-.
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.
Nobody well known was born in Richland Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Richland Township is more historic than 38% 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.
16% of Richland Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±12.7 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1990.
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 (6), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, 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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