Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 84% of U.S. towns. What drives it
Its Register listing is the Big Bottom Massacre Site. Below: maps from 1910 on and old-book passages.
More historic than 84% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Windsor Township is more historic than 84% 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.
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 Windsor Township’s 5.3 sits above most of its state (65% of Ohio towns have fewer) while its 1 listings outnumber those of 51% of U.S. towns.
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 →
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 Windsor Township’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Windsor 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 Windsor Township.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Windsor Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Windsor Township is one of the fourteen townships of Morgan County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 1,897 people in the township.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 2,089 to 1,897 (-9%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Windsor Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
which he bored a well which was very productive. This well they operated until 1835. In 1886 he bought a tract of land in Windsor Township where is now located the village of Ilooksburg, 27 at that time a dense wilderness, where he remained until his decease, which
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which he bored a well which was very productive. This well they oj>erated until 1885. In 1886 he bought a tract of land in Windsor Township where is now located the village of Hooksburg, 37 at that time a dense wilderness, where he remained until his decease, which
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to the time he taught school (1833) lie was a farmer, having in 1818 or 1820 cleared land and built a cabin where is now Stockport, in Windsor Township. Then he became successively a manufacturer of pewter buttons, a keel boatman and a book-peddler, carrying his stock in trade in a knapsack, during
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the township are those of the original survey, with the exception that half of the northeast corner section has been set off to Windsor Township. In 1805 all of Athens County was divided into four townships. Ames Township included both of the present townships of Homer and Marion.
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 SurveyThe 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 Windsor Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Windsor Township is more historic than 84% 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.
One place: the Big Bottom Massacre Site (listed 1970).
30% of Windsor Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±10.2 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1972.
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 Wikimedia Commons (3), the National Register of Historic Places (1), 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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