Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 48% of U.S. towns. What drives it
Below: maps from 1906 on and old-book passages.
More historic than 48% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Sugar Creek Township is more historic than 48% of U.S. towns. Its share of homes from before 1940 holds the grade up; its National Register listings pull 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 Sugar Creek Township’s 0.0 sits below most of its state (23% of Ohio towns have fewer) while its 0 listings outnumber those of 23% 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 Sugar Creek Township’s history is told.
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.
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.
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 twelve townships of Allen County, Ohio, United States. The population was 1,231 at the 2020 census.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 1,283 to 1,231 (-4%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Sugar Creek Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
below the Tompkins & Hindel Mill. A saw-mill was erected on Sugar Creek by Higgs in 1832, and the same year Benjamin Clevenger erected a small mill, lower down the creek, in Sugar Creek Township. In 1837 a grist-mill was erected by Peter Rhodes on the Ottawa. The Luke Tipton Mill was a horse-power affair. In 1837 a grist-mill was erected by Solomon Carr & Co. The Shawnee saw mill was built by Ezekiel Hover and Ashel Tompkins on Hog Creek, south of Lima; while the Scott sawmill was erected in the vicinity in 1834. The first grist-mill in Shawnee
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In 1838 William Ramsey opened a school in Sugar Creek Township. A half century later, seven schoolhouses, fifteen teachers and 343 pupils mark the progress of the settlement.
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In 1888 William Ramsey opened a school in Sugar Creek Township. A half century later, seven schoolhouses, fifteen teachers and 843 pupils mark the progress of the settlement.
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 SurveyAnother post office, Gomer, 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.
Sugar Creek Township is more historic than 48% of U.S. towns. 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.
23% of Sugar Creek Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±8.8 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1970.
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), 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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