Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 60% of U.S. towns. What drives it
Below: old-book passages.
The Tymochtee Township post office opened in 1823, the earliest record of the town by name. Two smaller post offices, Tymochtee (1823) and Mexico (1837), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
More historic than 60% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Tymochtee Township is more historic than 60% of U.S. towns. Its age 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 Tymochtee 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.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Tymochtee 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).
From Wikipedia’s history of Tymochtee Township.
A post office called Tymochtee was in operation between 1823 and 1894. The community takes its name from nearby Tymochtee Creek. Tymochtee is a name derived from the Wyandot language meaning "stream around the plains".
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Passages that mention Tymochtee Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
1809, and in 1814 migrated by wagons to Ohio. They lived two years in Newark, three years in Huron County, eighteen months in Lower Sandusky, and moved to this county in 1821, Mr Brayton having purchased land in Tymochtee Township, at the Delaware land sales in 1820. In 182y, he constructed a saw mill run by water-power, and in 1825 built a grist mill — one run of buhrs, and the first grist mill in the county, except the Indian Mill near Upper Sandusky. Mr. Brayton resided here till 1832, when he sold out and moved to Seneca County, buying a farm in Big Springs Town-
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and in Tymochtee extended through Sections 16 and 20. The early settlers went to Delaware for supplies usually, though as early as 1823, John Carey and Elijah Bray ton erected a saw and grist mill, on lands owned by Mr. Carey, in what is now Tymochtee Township. A carding machine was also operated in connection with this mill. At present the township can boast of five mills— one saw mill at Crawford, two saw mills at Carey and two grist mills at the latter place. The first store of this territory was kept at Crawfordsville, by William M. Buell, who was also the first merchant of
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.
Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Nobody well known was born in Tymochtee Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The Tymochtee Township post office opened in 1823, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
Tymochtee Township is more historic than 60% 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.
19% of Tymochtee Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±6.7 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1987.
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 Wikipedia, 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.