Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: Nyttend · Public domainMore historic than 57% of U.S. towns. What drives it
Below: 5 old photos and papers, maps from 1907 on, and old-book passages.
More historic than 57% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Tiffin Township is more historic than 57% 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 Tiffin 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.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Tiffin 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 Tiffin Township.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Tiffin Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Tiffin Township is one of twelve townships in Defiance County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census reported 1,586 residents in the township.
Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 1,612 in 2010, 1,586 in 2020.
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Tiffin Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
January 7, 1830, Mary Shank, and immigrated to what is now Tiffin Township in the fall of 1831. He entered 109 acres of land in Section 3, and commenced his improvements where Evansport now stands. The village of Evansport was laid out in 1835 by Jacob Coy, Albert Evans and Amos Evans.
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
ton and Roy Belt. Dr. Cameron was appointed Postmaster at Evansport in 1875, serving in that capacity until 1881, when he resigned. He was once appointed and twice elected Trustee of Tiffin Township, which office he now holds. He assisted his father in preparing the census reports for the district comprising the townships of Adams, Tiffin, Washington and Delaware, in 1870, and was himself appointed
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.
2 decades in the archive, from the 1890s to the 1900s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Tiffin Township’s page.
Retake this view · +15Nobody well known was born in Tiffin Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Another post office, McCauleys, 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).
Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Tiffin Township is more historic than 57% 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.
30% of Tiffin Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±13.0 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1971.
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 the Library of Congress (5), 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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