Blooming Grove Township’s post office opened in 1871, and 1 of its places is on the National Register
More historic than 33% of U.S. towns · #922 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. What drives it
Most of Blooming Grove Township was built recently: 4% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1985. Its Register listing is the Lord House. Below: maps from 1935 on and the census since 1860.
The Blooming Grove Township post office opened in 1871, the earliest record of the town by name. Two smaller post offices, Lords Valley (1853) and Blooming Grove (1871), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
First census: 339 in 18602020 census: 5,415155 years
How historic is Blooming Grove Township?
C
More historic than 33% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
Founding year: the first Blooming Grove Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓
History grade
What drives Blooming Grove Township’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Blooming Grove Township is more historic than 33% of U.S. towns, #922 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. Its National Register listings hold the grade up; its share of homes from before 1940 pulls it down.
C
HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Blooming Grove Township’s overall grade.
Pennsylvania towns list about as much on the Register as the country (a typical Pennsylvania town has 2.1 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Blooming Grove Township’s 1.8 sits near the middle of its state (56% of Pennsylvania towns have fewer) while its 1 listings outnumber those of 51% of U.S. towns.
How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from C− to C+. The pre-1940 share (±2.2 points) is firm at this size. The founding year is the first post office, not a stated founding date.
Founding year: the first post office (other dates in Quick answers). Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →
What stands out about Blooming Grove Township’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The Lord House was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
On September 12, 2014, outside the Troop R barracks of the Pennsylvania State Police in the township, a sniper opened fire on Pennsylvania State Police troopers with a .308-caliber rifle during a late-night shift change, killing Corporal Bryon K. Dickson II, 38, and critically injuring trooper Alex Douglass. Eric Matthew Frein was identified as the sole suspect of the ambush and was sought by federal and state authorities for the ambush, until his apprehension at 6 p.m. on Thursday, October 30, ending a seven-week search.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Blooming Grove Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1935Hawley sheet · 1:62,500
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Blooming Grove Township.
On the National Register
1 historic place in Blooming Grove Township
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
The Blooming Grove Township post office opened in 1871, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
How does Blooming Grove Township rank for history?
Blooming Grove Township is more historic than 33% of U.S. towns, #922 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.
What is on the National Register in Blooming Grove Township?
One place: the Lord House (listed 1980).
How old are the homes in Blooming Grove Township?
4% of Blooming Grove Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±2.2 points), against a typical 18% for a Pennsylvania town; the median home was built in 1985.
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).
From the National Register of Historic Places (1), 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.
