Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Its Register listing is the Glenford Bank. Below: maps from 1909 on and the census since 1930.
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 Glenford’s history is told.
From Wikipedia’s history of Glenford.
Glenford had its start when the railroad was extended to that point. A post office called Glenford has been in operation since 1871.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Peaked at 231 in 1940; 165 people lived here in 2020.
10 censuses, 1930–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Glenford’s Wikipedia page.
Passages that mention Glenford, cut from the printed page as they were published.
four times every day, Sunday excepted, two local trains and about four coal trains daily. ; Chalfant, a small village and railway station, on the Newark, Somerset and Straitsville Railroad, is situated between Glenford and Somerset, and has a railway station, post office, store, blacksmith shop-and wagon shop, with a population of probably less than fifty.
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
State. Without the extraordinary persistence of Mr. Bear, and the untiring perseverance of the officers alluded to, no one would have ever been punished for the crime Glenford, a small village ‘that has grown up since the building of the Newark, Somerset and Straitsville Railroad, is the principal town in Hopewell township. M. Estella, Mechling, an intelligent school girl, eleven years of age.describes Glenford as follows: It is a small town, situated in Hopewell township. Perry county,
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 Survey
Born hereDick Shrider is born hereEvery edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Glenford. 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 Glenford.
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.
Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.
One place: the Glenford Bank (listed 1990).
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 (2), Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), 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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