Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 92% of U.S. towns · #116 of 993 in Ohio. What drives it
15 places in town are on the National Register. Below: maps from 1908 on and old-book passages.
More historic than 92% 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 92% of U.S. towns, #116 of 993 in Ohio. All 2 inputs are above most U.S. towns; its National Register listings ranks highest and its share of homes from before 1940 lowest.
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 29.9 sits above most of its state (84% of Ohio towns have fewer) while its 82 historic buildings outnumber those of 88% 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).
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving. One is a National Historic Landmark, the highest tier.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
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 sixteen townships of Ross County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 27,876 people in the township.
Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 27,721 in 2010, 27,876 in 2020.
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Scioto Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
James Stinson, who was probably a native of Rhode Island, was one of the first pioneer settlers of Ross County. He came to this county when Ohio was still a part of Northwest Territory. He lived on the High Banks until 1801, when he settled in what is now Scioto Township, securing a large tract of land south of and adjoining the present Village of Massieville. His farm was located on the well-traveled highway between Portsmouth and Columbus, and the large log house which he built was opened as a hotel and stage station. In the year before the
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.
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.
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 92% of U.S. towns, #116 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.
22% of Scioto Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±2.3 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1960.
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 (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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