Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Most of Craig Township was built recently: 10% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1992. Its Register listings are the Thomas T. Wright House, the Venoge Farmstead and the Thiebaud Farmstead. Its Register listings are the Thomas T. Wright House, the Venoge Farmstead and the Thiebaud Farmstead. Below: maps from 1956 on and the census since 1890.
The Craig Township post office opened in 1849, the earliest record of the town by name. Three smaller post offices, Craig (1849), Long Run (1874) and Lamb (1882), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
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 Craig 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).
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 SurveyFrom Wikipedia’s history of Craig Township.
Craig Township has the name of George Craig, a pioneer settler and afterward state legislator.
The Thiebaud Farmstead, Venoge Farmstead, and Thomas T. Wright House are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Craig 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 Craig Township.
The 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 695 and 1,980 people in every census since 1890.
14 censuses, 1890–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Craig Township’s Wikipedia page.
Nobody well known was born in Craig Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The Craig Township post office opened in 1849, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
Three places: the Thomas T. Wright House (listed 1980), the Venoge Farmstead (1997) and the Thiebaud Farmstead (2004).
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 the National Register of Historic Places (3), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
