Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: 3 old photos and papers, maps from 1957 on, and the census since 2000.
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 Athens Township’s history is told.
Four 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).
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Athens Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Athens Township is a township in Crawford County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 639 at the 2020 census.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 734 to 636 (-13%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Athens Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
County, some distance east of French Creek, in the northeast corner of what is now the Township of Rockdale, thence taking a southeastern course entered the northwest corner of Athens Township, and passing through the eastern portions of Athens, Steuben and Troy Townships left the county near the southwest corner of the latter subdivision, a little east of Sugar Creek. This was the shortest route between the forts, the distance being many miles less than to follow the meanderings of French Creek.
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 archiveThe New administration--visitors paying their respects to President Harrison at the White…
In the archiveEast entrance to old covered bridge
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey2 decades in the archive, from the 1880s to the 1910s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Athens 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 Athens Township.
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Athens Township’s page.
Retake this view · +15Between 639 and 775 people in every census since 2000.
3 censuses, 2000–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Athens Township’s Wikipedia page.
Nobody well known was born in Athens Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
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 (1), the Library of Congress (3), 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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2022
