Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 74% of U.S. towns · #382 of 993 in Ohio. What drives it
3 places in town are on the National Register, among them a historic district with 7 buildings. Below: maps from 1924 on and old-book passages.
More historic than 74% 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 74% of U.S. towns, #382 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 22.6 sits above most of its state (82% of Ohio towns have fewer) while its 9 historic buildings outnumber those of 75% 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.
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 Scioto Township’s history is told.
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 eighteen townships of Delaware County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2020 census the population was 3,742.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 2,993 to 3,742 (+25%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Scioto Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
ing lumber as well as for grinding grist. In 1814, Joseph Lewis built a grist-mill and sawmill near Cheshire. Philip Horshaw settled in Scioto Township in 1809 and immediately built the first grist-mill. It was located on the site of the present mill at Warrensburg. This site has, undoubtedly, the best water-power in the county, enough to develop 300 horse-power.
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place of beginning. In 1852. land embracing two school districts in the northern part of G ncord Township, on the east side of the Scioto was annexed to Scioto Township. A few years after that, a part of Concord Township situated directly west of the Mill Creek settlement, occupying the bend of Mill Creek south of it. was attached to Scioto Township,
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log cabin in this township. In the following year, assisted by Richard Hoskins and James McCune, together with help from the town of Franklinton, ; he put up the first saw-mill in Scioto Township, at the mouth of the creek. In November, 1807, Richard Hoskins went to Franklinton for supplies, and, on his return, was accompanied by James McCune and his family, who settled on a farm
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 SurveyThe 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 74% of U.S. towns, #382 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.
Three places: the Felkner-Anderson House (listed 1988), the Richey, James, Farmhouse (1993) and the Warren Tavern Complex (1983).
11% of Scioto Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±5.5 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 2000.
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 (3), the National Register of Historic Places (3), 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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