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History · Summit Township

41% of Summit Township’s homes were built before 1940

0on the National Register
41%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Summit 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 writtenNo old photos of Summit Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages1 post office opened and closed inside today’s Summit Township, and 4 old place names are still on the map.Old housesHalf of Summit Township’s homes were built before 1953.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Summit Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
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Places that used to be

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

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

Hamlets and corners on the map
BurkhartDeckerHamiltonJacobsburg
Gone or out of use
Burkhart Post Officepost officeHamilton Schoolschool
6cemeteries and burying grounds inside Summit Township
Bracken RidgeBuchanon PresbyterianFriendshipLewisville German LutheranMiddle Church German LutheranWise

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

The story so far

Summit Township, in brief

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

Summit Township is one of the eighteen townships of Monroe County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 595, including 184 people in the village of Lewisville.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 647 to 595 (-8%).

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

By decade

Summit Township, decade by decade

Today2 recent
Bracken Ridge and 145 barn2016Bracken Ridge and 145 barnMap of Monroe County Ohio Highlighting2015Map of Monroe County Ohio HighlightingMap
Famous people

Famous people close to Summit Township

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

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William Crittenden MooneyAmerican politician, Ohio · b. 1855
Charles DorrAmerican politician · b. 1852
Merriman Colbert HarrisAmerican Christian missionary to Japan · b. 1846
William Gladstone SteelCrater Lake promoter and mail carrier · b. 1854
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Leroy WelshAmerican politician in Ohio · b. 1844
Sad Sam JonesAmerican baseball player · b. 1892
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Franklin TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townWayne TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townSeneca TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townMalaga TownshipIts storyB+Center Township6 historic placesA

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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 (2), 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.