Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 66% of U.S. towns · #467 of 993 in Ohio. What drives it
Its Register listings are the Zimri Cook House, the York United Methodist Church and the Jacob Gayer House. Below: maps from 1904 on and old-book passages.
More historic than 66% 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 66% of U.S. towns, #467 of 993 in Ohio. All 2 inputs are above most U.S. towns; its National Register listings ranks highest and its share of homes from before 1940 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 7.0 sits above most of its state (69% of Ohio towns have fewer) while its 3 listings outnumber those of 65% 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 seventeen townships of Medina County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 4,284 people in the township.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 3,438 to 4,284 (+25%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention York Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
such as are, or may hereafter be, associated with them, be, and the same are hereby, created a bod}' corporate and politic by the name of the First Congregational Society of York Township, Medina Count}’, Ohio.” The first church has been replaced by another and a better one.
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such as are, or may hereafter be, associated with them, be, and the same are hereby, created a body corporate and politic by the name of the First Congregational Society of York Township, Medina County, Ohio.” The first church has been replaced by another and a better one.
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churches and schools in York Township, and, to the former, he has contributed liberally toward the erection of four substantial buildings. He helped to * chop out" the wagon road, both north and south, through the center of York Township, and he has lived to see the day that beautiful homes now dot the lands then covered by heavy timber. Atthe election held in the town-
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 66% of U.S. towns, #467 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 Zimri Cook House (listed 1976), the York United Methodist Church (1978) and the Jacob Gayer House (1979).
12% of York Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±4.4 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1987.
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 (3), 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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