Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: maps from 1909 on and old-book passages.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Six 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 Washington Township’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Washington 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 Washington Township.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Washington Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Washington Township is one of the twenty-two townships of Tuscarawas County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 739 people in the township.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 824 to 739 (-10%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Washington Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Commissioners held Augnst 11, 1818, in compliance with a petition presented by Robert Johnson. Its original limits included, besides Township 5, Range 1, a strip two miles wide off the east side of Township 5, Range 2, now in Washington Township. The erection of Washington in 1827 reduced Perry to its present size. The inhabitants of the newly formed Perry were directed to hold an election for township officers on the last Saturday of Au- % gust, 18 18, at the house of Robert Johnson, of Westchester.
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
Ananias Randall was probably the first settler in the township. His name is the first to appear on the county tax duplicate as a resident land owner in the territory which constitutes Washington Township. He entered the Dortheast quarter of Section 21, upon which the village of Newtown is situated, and also the northeast quarter of Section 22. Richard Banning was next to acquire a freehold in the township. He hailed from New Jersey, and in 1817 entered the southeast quarter of Section 19. His brother, Joseph Lanning, emigrated from New Jersey in 1819, and settled in the same local
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 SurveyNobody well known was born in Washington Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
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). How TownRatings grades history →
From Wikimedia Commons (5), 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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