Shalersville Township’s post office opened in 1824, and 1 of its places is on the National Register
More historic than 67% of U.S. towns · #454 of 993 in Ohio. What drives it
Most of Shalersville Township was built recently: 9% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1970. Its Register listing is the Luman Nelson House. Below: maps from 1960 on and old-book passages.
The Shalersville Township post office opened in 1824, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Shalersville (1824), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
2020 census: 5,245202 years
How historic is Shalersville Township?
B+
More historic than 67% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
Founding year: the first Shalersville Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).
History grade
What drives Shalersville Township’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Shalersville Township is more historic than 67% of U.S. towns, #454 of 993 in Ohio. Its age holds the grade up; its share of homes from before 1940 pulls it down.
B+
HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Shalersville Township’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 Shalersville Township’s 3.8 sits near the middle of its state (60% of Ohio towns have fewer) while its 2 historic buildings outnumber those of 60% of U.S. towns.
How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from B− to B+. The pre-1940 share is a Census survey estimate (±6.5 points). The founding year is the first post office, not a stated founding date.
Founding year: the first post office (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 Shalersville Township’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Shalersville Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Shalersville Township is one of the eighteen townships of Portage County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 5,245 people in the township.
Its first post office opened in 1824. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 5,670 to 5,245 (-7%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
From the old history books
What they wrote about Shalersville Township in 1885
Passages that mention Shalersville Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
History of Portage County, Ohio1885 · page 285Read the page →
Read the text
of the county, but it was not completed in Stark County till 1812. This road afterward became the great north and south route over which J. O. Granger ran his four-horse stage line. In 1817 David Mcintosh cut the center road through from Shalersville Township to Freedom, at which time the latter township was an unbroken wilderness, the first settler not arriving till the following year.
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.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Shalersville Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1960Ravenna sheet · 1:24,000
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Shalersville Township.
On the National Register
1 historic place in Shalersville Township
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
The Shalersville Township post office opened in 1824, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
How does Shalersville Township rank for history?
Shalersville Township is more historic than 67% of U.S. towns, #454 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.
What is on the National Register in Shalersville Township?
One place: the Luman Nelson House (listed 1993).
How old are the homes in Shalersville Township?
9% of Shalersville Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±6.5 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1970.
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 (7), 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.
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