Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: maps from 1900 on and the census since 1870.
Springboro dates its founding to 1800 (Wikidata). The census first counted it in 1870.
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 Springboro’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Springboro. 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 Springboro.
From Wikipedia’s history of Springboro.
Incorporated as a borough in the spring of 1866, the crossroads officially became Springboro in 1840. 2015 is the 175th year.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention Springboro, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Saw-milling is still followed in various parts of the township, and among the mills may be mentioned Sheldon’s saw and shingle-mill about two miles northeast from Springboro; Dunn’s steam saw and shingle and corn-grinding mill about four miles east, and Hickernall’s steam saw-mill. Miss Jane Garner taught the first school in 1811 or 1812 in a log schoolhouse erected on the old Cook farm two miles north of Springboro. The children who attended it were: Christopher Ford’s two miles south: James McKee’s, three-fourths of a mile southwest; John Garner’s two and a half
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The village contains three churches. The Christian Church of Springboro dates its origin back to 1825. In or about that year Rev. Asa Morrison organized a large congregation. Among the earliest members were Samuel Whitman, Elisha Bowman, Elan, Daniel and Asa Sturtevant, William Forsythe, Frank ‘and Amos Wells, Orrin Baldwin, and Ebenezer and Lyman Hall. The first meetings were held in the schoolhouse, and about 1845 the present commodious frame building, located on the south side of Cussewago Street, was erected. It was the first religious edifice within the limits of the borough.
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.
Born hereWalter Halben Butler is born here
Born hereStephen Bolles is born here
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyPeaked at 614 in 1910; 377 people lived here in 2020.
16 censuses, 1870–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Springboro’s Wikipedia page.
Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.
In 1800, according to Wikidata. Springboro’s post office opened in 1878, and the census of 1870 counted 323 people here.
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). How TownRatings grades history →
From Wikimedia Commons (3), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, 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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