On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Weller Township is more historic than 97% of U.S. towns. All 2 inputs are above most U.S. towns; its share of homes from before 1940 ranks highest and its National Register listings lowest.
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HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Weller 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 Weller Township’s 31.7 sits above most of its state (85% of Ohio towns have fewer) while its 8 historic buildings outnumber those of 74% of U.S. towns.
How sure. Graded on two of the three inputs, so a change in either one moves the letter more than it would with three. The pre-1940 share is a Census survey estimate (±19.1 points).
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 →
What stands out about Weller 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
Four other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.
Olivesburg
1828–1907
West Windsor
1838–1883
Pavonia
1883–1973
Epworth
1890–1901
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Hamlets and corners on the map
EpworthOlivesburgPavonia
Gone or out of use
Epworth Post Officepost officeK & D Airways AirportairportOlivesburg Post Officepost officePavonia Post Officepost office
5cemeteries and burying grounds inside Weller Township
CharlesFranklin ChurchMiltonMount OlivetPittenger
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
The story so far
Weller Township, in brief
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Weller Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Weller Township is one of the eighteen townships of Richland County, Ohio, United States. It is a part of the Mansfield Metropolitan Statistical Area. The 2020 census found 1,884 people in the township.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 1,780 to 1,884 (+6%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
From the old history books
What they wrote about Weller Township in 1880
Passages that mention Weller Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
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ceased. Four miles west, at Big Hill. the same sandstone is quarried. South of this. and in the hills immediately north of Windsor Station, in Weller Township, the Waverly conglomerate is quarried and exposed by outcrops and bluffs in several places. It is here 100 feet thick, and its surface, by barometer, is 400 feet above the exposure of the Berea in Plymouth
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chews nor smokes. Both of his grandfathers were Revolutionary soldiers, and his father a soldier of the war of 1812. His father, John Taylor, a noted pioneer of Weller Township, Richland Co., was born in Greene Co., Penn., in 1788; moved to Weller Township in 1818, where he entered his land from the Government.
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Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Timeline
Weller Township, 1828 to 1973
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Weller Township is more historic than 97% 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.
What is on the National Register in Weller Township?
One place: the Richland County Infirmary (listed 2001).
How old are the homes in Weller Township?
38% of Weller Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±19.1 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1959.
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 (4), the National Register of Historic Places (1), 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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