Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: maps from 1909 on and old-book passages.
The Rush Township post office opened in 1833, the earliest record of the town by name. Four smaller post offices, Rush (1833), Johnson (1857) and Rock (1886), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Four 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 Rush Township’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Rush 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 Rush Township.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Rush Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Rush Township is one of the twenty-two townships of Tuscarawas County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 867 people in the township.
Its first post office opened in 1833. Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 880 in 2010, 867 in 2020.
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Rush Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
of 1812, and lived over fifty years in Rush Township, where he died in 1854. Mr. Turner has retired from farming and moved to Uhrichsville in 1882, purchasing a residence on Dawson street, but still retaining a farm in Rush Township of 215 acres of land. Philander Turner, who was bom November 10, 1848, in Rush Township, lived with them till he was twenty-one years old, then went as fireman on the Pan Handle Railroad; at present he is working in the Dennison railroad shops. Charles Turner is a Republican in politics; was Justice of the Peace in Rush Township. He has also filled other minor offices.
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
Benjamin and Jane Fowler. In 1863, our subject bought a farm in Harrison County, consisting of 160 acres, which he afterward sold and purchased in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, first in Union Township, consisting of 167 acres, which he sold, and bought 140 acres in Rush Township. This he sold in the spring of 1883. In December of 1882, he bought the Central Hotel in Uhrichsville, also other town property. He is now managing the hotel, where he and family reside. The hotel is first class and the largest in the city. The traveling public will do well to stop with him, for he and his family spare no
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 Rush Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The Rush Township post office opened in 1833, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
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). How TownRatings grades history →
From Wikimedia Commons (4), 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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