Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: maps from 1910 on and the census since 1880.
Barkeyville dates its founding to 1796 (Wikidata). The census first counted it in 1880.
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 Barkeyville’s history is told.
Peaked at 302 in 1970; 188 people lived here in 2020.
7 censuses, 1880–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Barkeyville’s Wikipedia page.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Barkeyville. 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 Barkeyville.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Barkeyville yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Barkeyville is a borough in Venango County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 186 at the 2020 census.
Barkeyville was established in 1796. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 207 to 188 (-9%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Barkeyville, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Hickory Grove Church, Church of God. — The preachers of this denomination stationed at Barkeyville and other points frequently preached in the school houses of the township on their journeys to points across the river, and the first, or one of the first, was Reverend Jacob Domer. The organization was effected at Lyons' school house, Samuel Hovis and John Wareham being the first elders. R. C. Shorts and Coulter Hoffman have since been
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Mt. Olive Church of the Evangelical Association was organized in March, 1882, by Reverend M. L. Weaver, then of Barkeyville circuit, with twenty-seven members, of whom Emanuel Rice was first class leader. Services were held at first in the Heister school house. A frame church was built at Raymilton, in 1882, and dedicated February 18, 1883. Reverends Finecy, Vote, Bumgardner, Cramer, Miller, and Strayer have served as pastors of this church.
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 SurveyNobody well known was born in Barkeyville itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Barkeyville had its own post office from 1870 to 1906.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
In 1796, according to Wikidata. Barkeyville’s post office opened in 1870, and the census of 1880 counted 95 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 (2), 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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