Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 16% of U.S. towns · #936 of 993 in Ohio. What drives it
Most of Union Township was built recently: 5% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1986. Below: maps from 1961 on and old-book passages.
More historic than 16% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Union Township is more historic than 16% of U.S. towns, #936 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 Union 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 Union Township’s history is told.
Three 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 Union Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Union Township is one of the thirteen townships of Clinton County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 United States Census reported 3,140 people living in the township.
Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 3,085 in 2010, 3,140 in 2020.
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Union Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Union Township, and one of the earliest in Clinton County. He opened a farm and built a grist-mill. His son James settled the farm long occupied by Eli Gaskill; Richard, the David Myers place, and John, the Morris farm.
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
would fix Ihe time of the first issue at about the 20th of May, 1815, providing a paper was published each week. This is the heft evidence now obtainable regarding the time at which this paper waB established. At, the date of said paper Rico Gaddis was editing and publishing it alone. From this number we gather the following items: Michael Toderow living on Cowan’s Creek, offered a lot of property at auction ; GideoD Edwards, of Union Township, had taken up' a strawberry roan horse ; John 1 ntliank offered lots for sale in the village of West Liberty, which he bad laid out on Anderson’s Fork, “thirteen miles from Xenia, and eight from Wilmington, In Clinton County, on the road leading from Wilmington to Urbana, and on the road from WayneBvllle to Chillicothe. There is a good grist and saw mi I a (joining the town, stone and timber in abundance, a high and healthy situation, a rich and flourishing aet-
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 SurveyEvery edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Union 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 Union Township.
Nobody well known was born in Union Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Union Township is more historic than 16% of U.S. towns, #936 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.
5% of Union Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±4.3 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1986.
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 (1), 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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