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Rimer 18-R housesPhoto: Nyttend · Public domain
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History · Sugar Creek Township

53% of Sugar Creek Township’s homes were built before 1940

Below: 1 old photo or paper and maps from 1906 on.

0on the National Register
53%homes built before 1940
1old photo or paper
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What stands out about Sugar Creek Township’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenOnly 1 old photo is in the public archives. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Sugar Creek Township’s homes were built before 1938.Lost villages1 post office opened and closed inside today’s Sugar Creek Township, and 4 old place names are still on the map.On the map since 19063 editions of the USGS map, 1906 to 1973. Watch Sugar Creek Township change.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Sugar Creek Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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The story so far

Sugar Creek Township, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Sugar Creek Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Sugar Creek Township is one of the fifteen townships of Putnam County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 1,181 people in the township.

Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 1,200 in 2010, 1,181 in 2020.

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

Another post office, Rimer, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Vaughnsville
1848–today
Rimer
1882–1916
18401930today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Jones CityRimerSeitzVaughnsville
Gone or out of use
Rimer Post Officepost office
4cemeteries and burying grounds inside Sugar Creek Township
ClerengerKeirnsOttawa RiverReynolds

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Timeline

Sugar Creek Township, 1848 to 1916

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1848Post officeThe Vaughnsville post office opens
  3. 1880In the archive1880 Map of
  4. 1882Post officeThe Rimer post office opens
  5. 20th century
  6. 1906On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  7. 1916Post officeThe Rimer post office closes
By decade

Sugar Creek Township, decade by decade

One decade in the archive so far: the 1880s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.

1880s1 item
1880 Map of18801880 Map ofMap
1890s–1990snothing yet
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.
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Today2 recent
Map of Putnam County Ohio Highlighting2015Map of Putnam County Ohio HighlightingMapSugar Creek Putnam2006Sugar Creek Putnam
On the map

Sugar Creek Township on the map, 1906 to 1973

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Sugar Creek Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Sugar Creek Township on the 1906 USGS mapSugar Creek Township on the 1960 USGS mapSugar Creek Township on the 1973 USGS map1906Columbus Grove 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 Sugar Creek Township.

Famous people

Famous people close to Sugar Creek Township

Nobody well known was born in Sugar Creek Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Phyllis DillerAmerican stand-up comedian, actress, author, mu… · b. 1917
Dean JaggerAmerican actor · b. 1903
Tanner BuchananAmerican actor · b. 1998
Al JardineAmerican musician · b. 1942
Joe HendersonAmerican jazz saxophonist · b. 1937
Ben RoethlisbergerAmerican football player · b. 1982
Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Union TownshipIts storyC+Monroe TownshipIts storyBJennings TownshipIts storyB−Pleasant Township1 historic placeA−

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Sources

Where this page comes from

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). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikimedia Commons (3), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, 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.