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More historic than 78% of U.S. towns · #338 of 993 in Ohio. What drives it
Its Register listing is the Garver Brothers Store. Below: maps from 1914 on and the census since 1850.
The Strasburg post office opened in 1832, the earliest record of the town by name.
More historic than 78% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Strasburg is more historic than 78% of U.S. towns, #338 of 993 in Ohio. All 3 inputs are above most U.S. towns; its age 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 Strasburg’s 3.8 sits near the middle of its state (60% of Ohio towns have fewer) while its 1 listings outnumber those of 51% of U.S. towns.
Founding year: the first post office (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 →
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 Strasburg’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Strasburg. 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 Strasburg.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
From Wikipedia’s history of Strasburg.
The first settlement at Strasburg was made in 1828. A large share of the early settlers being natives of Strasbourg (German: Strasburg) caused the name to be selected.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention Strasburg, cut from the printed page as they were published.
nals, was in a southwest direction from near the site of Fort Laurens to Mar gret’s Creek, now Sugar Creek, about fifty feet wide, which was crossed in the vicinity of the mouth of what is known as Broad Run, about a mile south of the village of Strasburg, thence up the valley of the latter stream to the place of encampment, which was in the vicinity of the present village of Winfield, in the northwestern part of Dover Township. The distance traveled was nine miles.
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
Strasburg, the next and only present village of the township, lies in the eastern part of the township, west of Sugar Creek, and has a population of about 200. It is a quiet country trading place, though in former days it obtained a notoriety for the boisterous, rollicking element wont to congregate here. The village was laid off on the northwest quarter of Section 21, Township 10, Range 8, by Jonathan Folck. in February, 1828. It embraced forty-seven lots, ranged on both sides of Main street, which extended north fifteen degrees west, and south fifteen degrees east. Main street is four
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.
The 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.
Grew from 109 people in 1850 to 2,735 in 2020, more than tenfold.
17 censuses, 1850–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Strasburg’s Wikipedia page.
The Strasburg post office opened in 1832, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
Strasburg is more historic than 78% of U.S. towns, #338 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 Garver Brothers Store (listed 1980).
20% of Strasburg’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±5.2 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1972.
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 (6), the National Register of Historic Places (1), 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 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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