Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 61% of U.S. towns · #526 of 993 in Ohio. What drives it
Its Register listings are the Wesley Chapel and the Elmdale Grange Hall 2162 and Watson One-Room School. Most of Springfield Township was built recently: 7% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1978. Below: maps from 1906 on and old-book passages.
More historic than 61% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Springfield Township is more historic than 61% of U.S. towns, #526 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 Springfield Township’s 19.3 sits above most of its state (81% of Ohio towns have fewer) while its 5 historic buildings outnumber those of 70% 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 Springfield Township’s history is told.
Three 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).
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Springfield 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 Springfield Township.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Springfield Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Springfield Township is one of the sixteen townships of Ross County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 2,573 people in the township.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 2,657 to 2,573 (-3%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Springfield Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
It was in 1832 that George Barmann came to Ross County. He bought a tract of land on the Columbus Pike in Springfield Township, and in 1840 erected a substantial brick house which still stands as a monument to his early enterprise. Constantly at work with both his hands and his mind, he was a constructive factor in the early days of agriculture in Springfield Township, and developed a large estate. He resided at the old home until his death in 1888 at the age of eighty years.
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 Springfield Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Springfield Township is more historic than 61% of U.S. towns, #526 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.
Two places: the Wesley Chapel (listed 1979) and the Elmdale Grange Hall 2162 and Watson One-Room School (2024).
7% of Springfield Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±6.0 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1978.
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 (1), the National Register of Historic Places (2), 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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