Photo: Jack Pearce from Boardman, OH, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0
Quick answers
How Vienna Township began
When was Vienna Township founded?
1808
The Vienna Township post office opened in 1808, the earliest record of the town by name. Three smaller post offices, Paynes Corners (1867), Tyrrell Hill (1878) and Tyrrell (1894), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
First census: 994 in 20002020 census: 3,978218 years
How historic is Vienna Township?
B−
More historic than 48% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
Founding year: the first Vienna Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓
History grade
What drives Vienna Township’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Vienna Township is more historic than 48% of U.S. towns, #677 of 993 in Ohio. Its age holds the grade up; its National Register listings pull it down.
B−
HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Vienna Township’s overall grade.
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 Vienna 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.
How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from C to B. The pre-1940 share is a Census survey estimate (±5.0 points). The founding year is the first post office, not a stated founding date.
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 →
What stands out about Vienna Township’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds
Three other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.
Vienna
1808–today
Paynes Corners
1867–1904
Tyrrell Hill
1878–1894
Tyrrell
1894–1930
18001910today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Four Seasons Mobile Home ParkMidway Mobile Home ParkPaynes CornerTyrrellVienna
Gone or out of use
Block SchoolschoolMurray SchoolschoolPaynes Corners Post Officepost officeTyrrell Post Officepost office
4cemeteries and burying grounds inside Vienna Township
Crown HillDoudDunlapVienna Center
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
On the map
Vienna Township on the map, 1906 to 1994
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Vienna Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1906Youngstown sheet · 1:62,500
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Vienna Township.
Vienna Township was established as Township 4, Range 2 in the Connecticut Western Reserve. It was surveyed in 1798 by a group led by Uriel Holmes under the direction of the Connecticut Land Company. The township's original settlers were Dennis Palmer and Isaac Flower. Thomas Robbins of the Connecticut Missionary Society established Vienna's Congregational Church in 1805, which would adopt Presbyterianism in 1854, one of the earliest churches in the state. The Western Reserve was absorbed into the Northwest Territory and later as part of Ohio in 1803.
The Vienna Township post office opened in 1808, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
How does Vienna Township rank for history?
Vienna Township is more historic than 48% of U.S. towns, #677 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.
How old are the homes in Vienna Township?
10% of Vienna Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±5.0 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1973.
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, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
