Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 76% of U.S. towns · #356 of 993 in Ohio. What drives it
Its Register listing is the Hobart, William, Vacation House. Below: maps from 1914 on and old-book passages.
More historic than 76% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Staunton Township is more historic than 76% of U.S. towns, #356 of 993 in Ohio. All 2 inputs are above most U.S. towns; its share of homes from before 1940 ranks highest and its National Register listings lowest.
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 Staunton Township’s 4.3 sits near the middle of its state (62% of Ohio towns have fewer) while its 1 listings outnumber those of 51% 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 Staunton Township’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Staunton 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 Staunton Township.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Staunton Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Staunton Township is one of the twelve townships of Miami County, Ohio, United States. The population was 2,439 at the 2020 census. It is the only Staunton Township statewide.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 2,090 to 2,439 (+17%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Staunton Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
growing up, conducted the latter 's farming operations, remaining with him in all about forty years. In 1903 he purchased his present farm in Staunton Township of B. F. Smith, and replaced all the old buildings with new and modern structures.
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
As has been said previously, the first settlements in Staunton Township were made by the Knoops and Michael Carver, who came from Pennsylvania in 1799. One year later, Carver purchased a half-section of J. C. Sy names, at $2.50 per acre.
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.
2024William Hobart Vacation Home 995 Polecat Road Troy Oh…
2019William Hobart Vacation Home Entrance Gate
2015Map of Miami County Ohio Highlighting Staunton Townsh…Map
2011Polecat Road gateway
2011Great Miami River from the Eldean Bridge
2008Staunton Township from the air
2007Fulton Farms pumpkins in the fieldThe 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.
Another post office, Petersons Station, 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).
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Staunton Township is more historic than 76% of U.S. towns, #356 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.
One place: the Hobart, William, Vacation House (listed 1989).
23% of Staunton Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±10.4 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1973.
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 (7), the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, 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.
