Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 93% of U.S. towns · #107 of 993 in Ohio. What drives it
3 places in town are on the National Register, among them a historic district with 14 buildings. Below: maps from 1905 on and the census since 1990.
The Windsor Township post office opened in 1804, the earliest record of the town by name. Two smaller post offices, Windsor Mills (1874) and Stoneville (1892), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
More historic than 93% 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 93% of U.S. towns, #107 of 993 in Ohio. All 3 inputs are above most U.S. towns; its National Register listings ranks highest and its age 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 56.9 sits above most of its state (90% of Ohio towns have fewer) while its 15 historic buildings outnumber those of 78% 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.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Windsor Township’s history is told.
Two 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).
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 twenty-seven townships of Ashtabula County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 2,659 people in the township.
Its first post office opened in 1804. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 2,279 to 2,659 (+17%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Windsor Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
In June of that year George Phelps and family cast their lots in what is now Windsor Township, Monroe received its first settlers in the persons of Stephen Moulton and his family, and Joseph Harper and Aaron Wheeler, two of the promoters of the Old Harpersfield Land Company, arrived with their families and increased the settlement on Grand River, which afterward was given the name of Harpersfield.
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
In 1829 Miss Parmelia Frazier taught the first school, which was conof whom several were from over the line in Windsor Township. In 1830 the “slab” school house, so named because of it being constructed of split logs, was built, and Miss Clarissa Norris was the first teacher therein. By winter of that year there were forty scholars in attendance in this school, many of whom had reached man’s and woman’s estate.
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.
BuiltWiswell Road Covered Bridge is built
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.
Between 1,481 and 2,659 people in every census since 1990.
4 censuses, 1990–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Windsor Township’s Wikipedia 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.
The Windsor Township post office opened in 1804, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
Windsor Township is more historic than 93% of U.S. towns, #107 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.
Three places: the Wiswell Road Covered Bridge (listed 1973), the Windsor Mills Christ Church Episcopal (1975) and the Windsor Corners District (1975).
28% of Windsor Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±15.2 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1991.
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 (6), Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (3), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), 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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