Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 32% of U.S. towns · #821 of 993 in Ohio. What drives it
Its Register listing is the Scioto Township District No. 2 Schoolhouse. Most of Scioto Township was built recently: 4% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 2003. Below: maps from 1923 on and old-book passages.
More historic than 32% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Scioto Township is more historic than 32% of U.S. towns, #821 of 993 in Ohio. Its National Register listings hold the grade up; its share of homes from before 1940 pulls 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 Scioto Township’s 0.9 sits near the middle of its state (48% of Ohio towns have fewer) while its 1 listings outnumber those of 51% 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 Scioto 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 Scioto 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 Scioto Township.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Scioto Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Scioto Township is one of the fifteen townships of Pickaway County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 United States Census found 11,712 people in the township.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 9,933 to 11,712 (+18%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Scioto Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Scioto Township Hall purchased in 1856. Today 2005 it is the Station house. Townships 75
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
Scioto Township, located in the north central part of Pickaway County, is about seven miles long and from four to seven miles wide and contains 42 square miles. In 1830 there were 462 inhabitants and in 1870 the population was 1545.
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.
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
2019Scioto Chapel UMC
2019George Hott Farm Cemetery
2019George Hott Farm Cemetery Robtown Ohio
2018Southern Point Ohio entry signage
2015Map of Pickaway County Ohio Highlighting Scioto Towns…Map
2013SciotoTownshipSchoolhouse
2013OCC1
2013Big Darby Creek Bridge
2012Scioto Topwnship Schoolhouse
2012Orient Correctional InstitutionThe 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.
Nobody well known was born in Scioto Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Scioto Township is more historic than 32% of U.S. towns, #821 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 Scioto Township District No. 2 Schoolhouse (listed 1987).
4% of Scioto Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±1.7 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 2003.
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 (10), Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (1), 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.
