Founding year: Wikidata; Wikipedia’s history section gives the same year. First post office: 1888.The full story ↓
History grade
What drives Springfield Township’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Springfield Township is more historic than 60% of U.S. towns, #539 of 993 in Ohio. Its age holds the grade up; its National Register listings pull it down.
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HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Springfield 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 Springfield Township’s 0.0 sits below most of its state (23% of Ohio towns have fewer) while its 0 listings outnumber those of 23% of U.S. towns.
How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from C+ to A−. The pre-1940 share is a Census survey estimate (±3.7 points). Two sources give 1801.
Founding year: Wikidata (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 Springfield Township’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds
Another post office, Beatty, opened and closed inside today’s town.
Hamlets and corners on the map
BeattyBon Air Mobile Home ParkCherry Point Mobile Home ParkCheviot HillsCrabill Road FarmsDurbinForest HillsGarden AcresGreen HedgesHoliday HillsLimecrestLocustgroveMeadow LanePossum WoodsRock WayShawnee AcresShoups Mobile Home ParkSnyders MillSouthridgeSun ValleySunnylandVictoria Villa
Gone or out of use
Beatty Post Officepost officeGrasses Millslocale
7cemeteries and burying grounds inside Springfield Township
The original pre-contact inhabitants of Springfield were the Shawnee people.
During the 18th century, the Ohio Country saw warfare, waves of migration and displacement, and imposition of claims by rivaling colonial powers France and Britain. With the end of the French and Indian War in 1763, the British became the sole European claimants of the region.
The area was home to the major Shawnee village in the region, called Peckuwe or Piqua. It belonged to the Shawnee septs (sub-clans) of Pekowi and Kispoko and had a population of about 3,000. It stood at 39° 54.5′ N, 83° 54.68′ W, less than four miles southwest of the current city of Springfield and less than six miles from its center.
What they wrote about Springfield Township, 1881–1922
Passages that mention Springfield Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
A standard history of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio1922 · page 255Read the page →
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town hall of New Carlisle in 1848, when a man who owned a farm east of Forgy was seeking an appropriation to complete the road, but by that time the railroad was changing conditions in Clark County; the grading stopped at the west line of Springfield Township, and recent complaints have been made about that stretch in the National highway. When Clark County local government was established, January 1, 1818, there were three hotels in Springfield: Ludlow, Ross and Norton, and like all other tavern keepers they catered to movers ; they had big
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The History of Clark County Ohio,1881 · page 639Read the page →
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birthplace, and settled on the farm sonth of the present village of Harmony, known as the Patten farm in 1812. He was a man well informed, took an active interest in the public affairs of the township, and was a Township Trustee for several years. Four of his sons were residents of Springfield Township and city. His son Asa, now deceased, built a steam saw and grist mill in Vienna about 1854. Mr. Rice died January 10, 1842, and his wife Lucy October 22, 1877.
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20th century history of Springfield, and Clark County, Ohio1908 · page 240Read the page →
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Green Township is located immediately south of Springfield Township, west of Madison and east of Mad River Townships and north of Greene County. In the greater part of the township the land is laid out as Congress land, only that south of the Little Miami River being a part of the Virginia Military Reservation.
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Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Timeline
Springfield Township, 1801 to 1960
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Springfield Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1904Springfield sheet · 1:62,500
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Springfield Township.
Then & now
Stand where they stood
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
Retake this viewWomen's whisky war in Ohio - sketched by John R. Chapin, 1874
Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Springfield Township’s page.
In 1801, according to Wikidata and Wikipedia’s history of the town. Springfield Township’s post office opened in 1888, and the census of 1810 counted 593 people here.
How does Springfield Township rank for history?
Springfield Township is more historic than 60% of U.S. towns, #539 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.
How old are the homes in Springfield Township?
19% of Springfield Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±3.7 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1961.
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), Wikidata (8), Wikipedia, 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 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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