Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 59% of U.S. towns. What drives it
Below: maps from 1911 on and old-book passages.
More historic than 59% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Royalton Township is more historic than 59% 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 Royalton 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 Royalton 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).
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Royalton 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 Royalton Township.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Royalton Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Royalton Township is one of the twelve townships of Fulton County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2020 census the population was 1,515.
Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 1,515 in 2010, 1,515 in 2020.
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Royalton Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Population Unfortunately, the complete statistics, from the beginning of the settlement of Royalton Township, cannot be given, but to preserve what statistics are now available the understated figures are given. In 1840, Royalton Township population numbered 401, this figure however including the inhabitants of that part ceded to Pike Township, upon the organization of the latter, in 1841. In 1870 the population of Royalton was 871; in 1890, 1,142; in 1900, 1,198; in 1910, 1,272; and in
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
Cemeteries There are two cemeteries in Royalton Township, the Jordan Cemetery, and the Lyons Cemetery. Both are now under the jurisdiction of the town and township officers, and Fred A. Slater has been clerk for a long while. The Baxter Post of G. A. R. decorate seventy-five graves in Lyons Cemetery, and thirty-one graves in the Jordan Cemetery, as well as twenty in the Roos Cemetery of Chesterfield Township. The Jordan Cemetery was early established, and early trustees of the cemetery
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.
Nobody well known was born in Royalton Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Royalton Township is more historic than 59% 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.
32% of Royalton Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±11.6 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 (7), 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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