Founding year: Wikidata. First post office: 1872.The full story ↓
History grade
What drives Steubenville Township’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Steubenville Township is more historic than 94% of U.S. towns, #94 of 993 in Ohio. All 3 inputs are above most U.S. towns; its National Register listings ranks highest and its age lowest.
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HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Steubenville 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 Steubenville Township’s 134 sits above most of its state (95% of Ohio towns have fewer) while its 54 historic buildings outnumber those of 85% of U.S. towns.
NoteThe founding year comes from Wikidata alone; no second source gives 1795.
How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from A− to A. The pre-1940 share is a Census survey estimate (±8.6 points).
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 Steubenville Township’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Peaked at 37,651 in 1940; 18,161 people lived here in 2020.
23 censuses, 1800–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Steubenville Township’s Wikipedia page.
On the map
Steubenville Township on the map, 1904 to 1985
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Steubenville Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1904Steubenville 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 Steubenville Township.
Places that used to be
Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds
Another post office, Georges Run, opened and closed inside today’s town.
Hamlets and corners on the map
Georges RunHillsboroJefferson Heights
Gone or out of use
Georges Run Post Officepost officeHarmony Schoolschool
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Steubenville Township
Georges RunHill
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
The story
How Steubenville Township came to be
From Wikipedia’s history of Steubenville Township.
In 1786–87, soldiers of the First American Regiment under Major Jean François Hamtramck built Fort Steuben to protect the government surveyors mapping the land west of the Ohio River. The fort was named in honor of Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, a Prussian army officer who reformed the Continental Army during the American Revolution. When the surveyors completed their task a few years later, the fort was abandoned. In the meantime, settlers had built homes around the fort; they named their settlement Steubenville. The town was sometimes referred to as La Belle City, a franglais interpretation of "The Beautiful City".
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.
In 1795, according to Wikidata. Steubenville Township’s post office opened in 1872, and the census of 1800 counted 731 people here.
How does Steubenville Township rank for history?
Steubenville Township is more historic than 94% of U.S. towns, #94 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 Steubenville Township?
25% of Steubenville Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±8.6 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1954.
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 (16), Wikidata (2), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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