Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 85% of U.S. towns · #240 of 993 in Ohio. What drives it
1 place in town is on the National Register. Below: maps from 1911 on and old-book passages.
More historic than 85% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, York Township is more historic than 85% of U.S. towns, #240 of 993 in Ohio. 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 York Township’s 2.4 sits near the middle of its state (54% 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.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how York Township’s history is told.
Three 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 York 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 York Township.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of York Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
York Township is one of the twelve townships of Fulton County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2020 census the population was 4,257.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 4,145 to 4,257 (+3%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention York Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Schools The school history of York Township probably did not begin until 1837, although a Delta historian referred to the erection of a schoolhouse in the Delta district “nearly a mile west of the present village, soon after that district was settled.” Undoubtedly, this was the Trowbridge settlement, which began in 1834, but it was some years before sufficient families had come to that part to make it necessary to provide school accommodation. Probably the first school taught in the
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At the time of their arrival at Maumee, the Trowbridge family found a great gathering of Indians had centered there, preparatory to being removed further west. On July 20, 1837, the Trowbridge family had reached the section in York Township upon which they were destined to live for very many years. James Trowbridge is stated to have been the first settler to conduct a store within what became the limits of the village of Delta. It appeal's, however, that Eli Kitts, of Maumee City, was the first storekeeper, James Trowbridge being second.
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born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, daughter of Aaron and Louisa (Horner) Berkebile, both of whom were natives of Cambria county, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Schamp’s mother died when she was only five years old, and four years later the family came to York Township, Ohio, where her father bought a farm. He was a resident in York Township for almost fifty years, as he lived until October, 1912, and during his long association with people of York Township gained for himself many sincere friends. His daughter Sarah, who
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 York Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
York Township is more historic than 85% of U.S. towns, #240 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.
37% of York Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±7.5 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1958.
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 (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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