Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 54% of U.S. towns. What drives it
Below: 1 old photo or paper, maps from 1913 on, and old-book passages.
More historic than 54% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Zane Township is more historic than 54% of U.S. towns. Its share of homes from before 1940 holds the grade up; its National Register listings pull it down.
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 Zane Township’s 0.0 sits below most of its state (23% of Ohio towns have fewer) while its 0 listings outnumber those of 23% 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 Zane 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 Zane 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 Zane Township.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Zane Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Zane Township is one of the seventeen townships of Logan County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 1,191.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 1,140 to 1,191 (+4%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Zane Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
tory of the county mentions a church established by the Quakers at Goshen, in Jefferson Township, in 1807. As early as 1813 a Methodist Church was built in Zane Township. The Tharp's Run Baptist Church one mile west of Zanesfield, was established in 1819, and others followed in rajjid succession in different parts of the county.
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tory of the county mentions a church established by the Quakers at Goshen, in Jefferson Township, in 1807. As early as 1813 a Methodist Church was built in Zane Township. The Tharp’s Run Baptist Church one mile west of Zanesfield, was established in 1819, and others followed in rapid succession in different parts of the county.
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This division of Logan County lies in the eastern range of townships, and was formerly a part of Zane Township, as really was the whole of Logan County. When set off from Zane, it embraced Bokes Creek Township within its limits, and so remained until 1837, when Bokes Creek was set off', bringing Perry Township (so named in honor of Commodore
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.
In the archiveAtlas of Logan County, Ohio
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyOne decade in the archive so far: the 1890s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
Nobody well known was born in Zane Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Zane Township is more historic than 54% 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.
26% of Zane Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±17.0 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1986.
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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