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History · Sherrodsville

56% of Sherrodsville’s homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1895 on and the census since 1890.

0on the National Register
56%homes built before 1940
1famous people
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What stands out about Sherrodsville’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Sherrodsville are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Sherrodsville’s homes were built before 1938.Mapped building by building3 fire insurance maps, 1895 to 1915, drew every building in Sherrodsville.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Sherrodsville’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
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The story

How Sherrodsville came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Sherrodsville.

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Sherrodsville was laid out in 1882, and named after Charles Sherrod, the original owner of the town site. In 1911 a devastating fire happened in the town causing 23 buildings to be burnt.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Every building

Sherrodsville, building by building, 1895–1915

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.

Sherrodsville fire insurance map, 1895, sheet 11895Sheet 1 of 1
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Sanborn Map Company, via the Library of Congress. Editions published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.

Timeline

Sherrodsville, 1833 to 1961

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1833Post officeThe Sherodsville post office opens
  3. 1892Born hereEdmund Rowe is born here
  4. 20th century
  5. 1961On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Sherrodsville, decade by decade

Today6 recent
Sherrodsville Fire Department2016Sherrodsville Fire DepartmentSherrodsville Calvary United Methodist Church2016Sherrodsville Calvary United Methodist ChurchMap of Carroll County Ohio Highlighting Sherrodsville Village2015Map of Carroll County Ohio Highlighting Sherrodsville…MapSherrodsville community park (Ohio)2010Sherrodsville community park (Ohio)Conotton Creek at Route 392010Conotton Creek at Route 39OHMap-doton-Sherrodsville2004OHMap-doton-Sherrodsville
On the map

Sherrodsville on the map, 1961 to 1994

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Sherrodsville. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Sherrodsville on the 1961 USGS mapSherrodsville on the 1994 USGS map1961Bowerston 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 Sherrodsville.

People over time

Sherrodsville, census by census

02004006008001,0001900192019401960198020002020Peak: 926

Between 222 and 926 people in every census since 1890.

14 censuses, 1890–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Sherrodsville’s Wikipedia page.

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Orange TownshipIts storyBMonroe TownshipIts storyC+

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Where this page comes from

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). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikimedia Commons (6), 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 and Sanborn fire insurance maps (Library of Congress). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.