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History · Pleasant Gap Township

Pleasant Gap Township’s post office opened in 1840

Most of Pleasant Gap Township was built recently: 10% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1973. Below: maps from 1887 on.

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How Pleasant Gap Township began

When was Pleasant Gap Township founded?

1840

The Pleasant Gap Township post office opened in 1840, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Pleasant Gap (1840), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 201186 years
Founding year: the first Pleasant Gap Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Pleasant Gap Township’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Pleasant Gap Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.On the map since 18874 editions of the USGS map, 1887 to 1981. Watch Pleasant Gap Township change.Deep rootsA post office since 1840: 186 years of Pleasant Gap Township.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Pleasant Gap Township’s history is told.

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On the map

Pleasant Gap Township on the map, 1887 to 1981

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Pleasant Gap Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Pleasant Gap Township on the 1887 USGS mapPleasant Gap Township on the 1894 USGS mapPleasant Gap Township on the 1961 USGS mapPleasant Gap Township on the 1981 USGS map1887Butler sheet · 1:125,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Pleasant Gap Township.

Timeline

Pleasant Gap Township, 1840 to 1918

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1840Post officeThe Pleasant Gap post office opens
  3. 1887On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  4. 20th century
  5. 1918Post officeThe Pleasant Gap post office closes
The story

How Pleasant Gap Township came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Pleasant Gap Township.

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Pleasant Gap was laid out in about 1840. It was so named from its scenic setting in a gap. A post office called Pleasant Gap was established in 1840, and remained in operation until 1918.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

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Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

Another post office, Pleasant Gap, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Hamlets and corners on the map
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Bauer PGI AirportairportBever SchoolschoolDouble Branch SchoolschoolHappy Hill SchoolschoolMarshall SchoolschoolOrchard Grove SchoolschoolPleasant Gap SchoolschoolScifers Schoolschool
1cemetery inside Pleasant Gap Township
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US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Prairie Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townLone Oak TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townHudson Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Pleasant Gap Township’s history

What year was Pleasant Gap Township founded?

The Pleasant Gap Township post office opened in 1840, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Where this page comes from

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 Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, 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.