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History · Wheeling Township

Wheeling Township’s post office opened in 1874, and 1 of its places is on the National Register

Most of Wheeling Township was built recently: 10% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1988. Its Register listing is the Booth Homestead.

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1on the National Register
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How Wheeling Township began

When was Wheeling Township founded?

1874

The Wheeling Township post office opened in 1874, the earliest record of the town by name. Three smaller post offices, Birds Run (1851), Wheeling (1874) and Guernsey (1881), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 680152 years
Founding year: the first Wheeling Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Wheeling Township’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Wheeling Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages3 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Wheeling Township, and 3 old place names are still on the map.
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Start Wheeling Township’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Wheeling Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
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Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

Three other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.

Birds Run
1851–1953
Wheeling
1874–1881
Guernsey
1881–1985
18501940today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Birds RunGuernseyToledoville
Gone or out of use
Anderson SchoolschoolBethel CHurchchurchBirds Run Post Officepost officeHigh Hill SchoolschoolScience Hill SchoolschoolUnion Hill Schoolschool
9cemeteries and burying grounds inside Wheeling Township
BankerBethelBirds Run Methodist EpiscopalEarleysForneyJonesTownshipUnion HillWorthing

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

The story so far

Wheeling Township, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Wheeling Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Wheeling Township is one of the nineteen townships of Guernsey County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2020 census the population was 680.

Its first post office opened in 1874. Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 686 in 2010, 680 in 2020.

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline

Wheeling Township, 1851 to 1985

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1851Post officeThe Birds Run post office opens
  3. 1874Post officeThe Wheeling post office opens
  4. 1881Post officeThe Wheeling post office closes
  5. 1881Post officeThe Guernsey post office opens
  6. 20th century
  7. 1953Post officeThe Birds Run post office closes
  8. 1985Post officeThe Guernsey post office closes
By decade

Wheeling Township, decade by decade

Today4 recent
Guernsey community center2015Guernsey community centerGuernsey UMC, 18932015Guernsey UMC, 1893Map of Guernsey County Ohio Highlighting2015Map of Guernsey County Ohio HighlightingMapBooth Homestead2009Booth Homestead
On the National Register

1 historic place in Wheeling Township

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
3
each building in a district counts
first listed
1979
Booth Homestead
Booth Homestead
Buildings

Architectural styles listings

Greek Revival1
Booth HomesteadGreek Revival

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

Famous people

Famous people close to Wheeling Township

Nobody well known was born in Wheeling Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Alexander Helwig WyantAmerican painter · b. 1836
William BurressAmerican actor · b. 1867
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John H. LamneckAmerican jurist · b. 1891
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Naphtali LuccockAmerican bishop · b. 1853
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Freeman DavisMedal of Honor recipient · b. 1842
Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Liberty TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townMonroe TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townOxford TownshipIts storyBKnox TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townLinton Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Wheeling Township’s history

What year was Wheeling Township founded?

The Wheeling Township post office opened in 1874, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Wheeling Township?

One place: the Booth Homestead (listed 1979).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Where this page comes from

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 (4), the National Register of Historic Places (1), 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.