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More historic than 74% of U.S. towns · #388 of 993 in Ohio. What drives it
Its Register listings are the Stevenson Peters House and the Squire's Glen Farm. Below: maps from 1914 on and old-book passages.
The Walnut Township post office opened in 1890, the earliest record of the town by name. Four smaller post offices, Hedges Store (1854), Last Ringgold (1854) and Nebraska (1862), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
More historic than 74% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Walnut Township is more historic than 74% of U.S. towns, #388 of 993 in Ohio. Its National Register listings hold the grade up; its age pulls 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 Walnut Township’s 26.6 sits above most of its state (83% of Ohio towns have fewer) while its 8 historic buildings outnumber those of 74% 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.
Four 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 Walnut Township’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Walnut 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 Walnut Township.
From Wikipedia’s history of Walnut Township.
The first store at Walnut opened in 1834. A post office called Walnut was established in 1890, and remained in operation until 1902.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention Walnut Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
![It was not damaged, but was moved to Walnut Township. The cement abutments for that bridge are still visible today. The school house still standing on the east side of SR, was constructed in 189] by Willis Ater. It was known as the Tootle School and was subdistrict No. 6. Wayne Township. Carl Gearh…](https://images.townratings.com/story/30602/bk-7fcaa9907d628ba2-l.jpg)
It was not damaged, but was moved to Walnut Township. The cement abutments for that bridge are still visible today. The school house still standing on the east side of SR, was constructed in 189] by Willis Ater. It was known as the Tootle School and was subdistrict No. 6. Wayne Township. Carl Gearhart taught at this school.
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
rilla Heffner (1877-1939). He was a farmer and county commissioner. They lived on the family farm located at the corner of Winchester and Bell Station roads in Walnut Township. These families are entombed in Reber Hill Mausoleum, Walnut Township, Ashville, Ohio.
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 SurveyWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Nobody well known was born in Walnut Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The Walnut Township post office opened in 1890, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
Walnut Township is more historic than 74% of U.S. towns, #388 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.
Two places: the Stevenson Peters House (listed 1984) and the Squire's Glen Farm (1974).
24% of Walnut Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±9.4 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1970.
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 the National Register of Historic Places (2), Wikipedia, 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.
