Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 48% of U.S. towns. What drives it
Below: 1 old photo or paper 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, Troy 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 Troy 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 Troy Township’s history is told.
Two other post offices 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).
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Troy Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Troy Township is one of the sixteen townships of Morrow County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 1,156 people in the township.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 1,129 to 1,156 (+2%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Troy Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Who taught the first school in Troy Township could not be learned, or whether the first was taught in the northern or southern part of the township. Schools in those days were taught by subscription, and the teachers generally “ boardad around.” The schoolhouses themselves were primitive affairs, and corresponded with the qualifications of the teachers, qualifications that would
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Who taught the first school in Troy Township could not be learned, or whether the first was taught in the northern or southern part of the town.ship. Schools in those days were taught by subscription, and the teachers generally '' boarded around.' The schoolhouses thenjselves were primitive affairs, and corresponded witli the (jualifications of the teachers, qualifications that would
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58; total 127 Balance on hand September 1, 1879 $1,119.78 A post office was established in the north part of Troy Township so early that the date cannot be given. It was known as " John McEwen's X Roads," and was kept by John McEwen, for whom it was named, and who lived just across the road from where the Buckhorn Schoolhouse now stands.
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58; total 127 Balance on hand September 1, 1879 $1,119.78 A post office was established in the north part of Troy Township so early that the date cannot be given. It was known as “ John McEwen’s X Roads,” and was kept by John McEwen, for whom it was named, and who lived just across the road from where the Buckhorn Schoolhouse now stands.
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.
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 Troy Township’s page.
Retake this view · +15Nobody well known was born in Troy Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Troy 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 Troy Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±10.7 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1979.
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 (3), 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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