Founding year: Wikidata. First post office: 1838.The full story ↓
History grade
What drives Salineville’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Salineville is more historic than 77% of U.S. towns. Its share of homes from before 1940 holds the grade up; its National Register listings pull it down.
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HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Salineville’s overall grade.
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 Salineville’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.
How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from C+ to A+. The pre-1940 share is a Census survey estimate (±10.5 points). Two sources give 1838.
Founding year: Wikidata (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 →
What stands out about Salineville’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Salineville was laid out in 1839 and incorporated as a village in 1848. Salineville was named from the salt deposits, or salinity, found on Yellow Creek. During the American Civil War, the Battle of Salineville took place near the village in 1863 and resulted in the capture of Confederate general John Hunt Morgan, ending Morgan's Raid from Tennessee into Ohio. It was the northernmost military action involving an official command of the Confederate States Army.
The Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railway passes through the township diagonally from the southeast to the northwest, and has at Salineville a station, where all trains halt. A short track, of about two miles in length, owned by the Salineville Railroad Company, extends west from Salineville to the Carroll County line, and is used exclusively for the transportation of coal from the mines along its line.
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History of Columbiana county, Ohio1879 · page 258Read the page →
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Salineville, a thriving, flourishing place, is the only important village in the township, and contains a population of about two thousand five hundred. It was laid out by John and James Farmer, in 1839, and incorporated in 1848, but did not begin to show much advancement in growth until 1852, when the completion of the Cleveland and Pittsburgh railroad and the subsequent development of the coal mining interests created sources of a substantial prosperity, which
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of Salineville about 1835, at which time there were 20 producing wells along Little Yellow Creek. At that time Farmer's output was more than 50 barrels a week, and he had meantime been joined by his son, James Farmer, later prominent in the development of the coal interests around Salineville, and in the building of the Cleveland & Pittsburg Railroad.
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The Big Vein Coal Company of Cleveland in the ’8o’s sunk a shaft near the Cleveland & Pittsburg Railroad station, in Salineville, and in 1905 had, for about 25 years, been the second largest producing coal mine concern in the Salineville field. About 1900 the company took; over the Cedar Hill mine, but in 1905 the latter had been closed. Frank Osborn, of Cleveland,,
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Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Timeline
Salineville, 1838 to 1920
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Salineville. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1905Salineville sheet · 1:62,500
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Salineville.
Every building
Salineville, building by building, 1895–1924
Fire insurance maps drew every building, what it was made of and what it was used for, so insurers could price the risk of fire. Pick a year, then a sheet.
Lost post offices, old corners and burying grounds
Another post office, Saline, opened and closed inside today’s town.
Saline
1838–1840
Saliniville
1840–today
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Hamlets and corners on the map
Diamond ValleyEast Salineville
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Salineville
Saint PatricksWoodland
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Questions about Salineville’s history
What year was Salineville founded?
In 1838, according to Wikidata. Salineville’s post office opened in 1838, and the census of 1860 counted 485 people here.
How does Salineville rank for history?
Salineville is more historic than 77% 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.
How old are the homes in Salineville?
55% of Salineville’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±10.5 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1938.
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 (11), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System, Sanborn fire insurance maps (Library of Congress) 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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