Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 32% of U.S. towns · #827 of 993 in Ohio. What drives it
Below: maps from 1912 on and old-book passages.
The Twin Township post office opened in 1875, the earliest record of the town by name. Eight smaller post offices, Twintown (1830), McCurdy (1861) and Twin (1875), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
More historic than 32% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Twin Township is more historic than 32% of U.S. towns, #827 of 993 in Ohio. 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 Twin 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: the first post office (other dates in Quick answers). 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.
Eight 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).
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Twin Township’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Twin 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 Twin Township.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Twin Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Twin Township is one of the sixteen townships of Ross County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 3,492 people in the township.
Its first post office opened in 1875. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 3,384 to 3,492 (+3%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Twin Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
than whom there is no better known citizen in Twin Township. His entire life has been spent at Storms Station, where he has been the proprietor of a successful general store business and in the vicinity of which he owns a handsome and well cultivated farming property, and where, for twenty-nine years, he has acted in the capacity of postmaster.
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
Gideon 8. Coover, who was born in Twin Township of Ross County seventy-three years ago, has spent practically all his life in Ross County. He received his early education while living on the home farm in Twin Township, but has profited a: great deal from practical experience with men and affairs. Before he was twenty-one years of age he enlisted, on May 2, 1864, in Company I of the One Hundred and Forty-ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. This was one of the hundred-days regiments and was in the battle at Monocacy, that saved Washington City. This One
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 Survey
2015Map of Ross County Ohio Highlighting Twin TownshipMap
2013MyrlShoemakerGrave
2013FrankfortOH5
2013FrankfortOH4
2013BournevilleOH2
2013BournevilleOH1
2012The Red Brick Schoolhouse
2012Red Brick Schoolhouse
2012Myrl Shoemaker grave marker
2012Myrl Shoemaker Headstone
2012Bourneville, Ohio
2010Spruce Hill Works
2009School in Twin Township
2007OHMap-doton-BournevilleNobody well known was born in Twin Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The Twin Township post office opened in 1875, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
Twin Township is more historic than 32% of U.S. towns, #827 of 993 in Ohio. 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.
14% of Twin Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±7.1 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1977.
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 (14), 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.
