Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 52% of U.S. towns. What drives it
Below: 2 old photos and papers, maps from 1929 on, and the census since 1970.
More historic than 52% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Brady Township is more historic than 52% of U.S. towns. Its share of homes from before 1940 holds the grade up; its National Register listings pull it down.
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 Brady Township’s 0.0 sits below most of its state (25% of Pennsylvania towns have fewer) while its 0 listings outnumber those of 23% of U.S. towns.
Founding year: our sources. 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 →
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 Brady Township’s history is told.
Two 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 Brady Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Brady Township is a township in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,941 at the 2020 census.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 2,000 to 1,936 (-3%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Brady Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
at others being engaged alone. At the present date of writing (1910), he is developing a tract of second growth timber in Brady Township. In 1869, Mr. Ginter, in partnership with Samuel Yohe, bought 218 acres of timber land from George Pentz in Brady Township, this being Mr. Ginter's first venture in this field. As before he
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 archiveBrady Township, Caldwell Atlas, 1878 Map
In the archive1940 Census Enumeration District Maps - Pennsylvania - Clearfield County - Brady - ED 17-…
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey2 decades in the archive, from the 1870s to the 1880s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
2024US 219 sb-US 322 eb in Salem, PA, June 2024
2024US 219 nb-US 322 wb split in Brady Twp., PA, Aug. 2024
2024US 219 nb-US 322 wb in Salem, PA, Aug. 2024
2024US 219 nb-US 322 wb in Brady Twp., PA, Aug. 2024
2024US 219 nb past US 322, Aug. 2024
2024US 219 nb entering Sandy Twp. from Brady Twp., PA, Au…
20222022-06-04 11 53 14 View west along Pennsylvania Stat…
2012US Route 322 - Pennsylvania (8465899885) (2)Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Brady 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 Brady 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 Brady Township’s page.
Retake this view · +15Between 1,707 and 2,023 people in every census since 1970.
6 censuses, 1970–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Brady Township’s Wikipedia page.
Nobody well known was born in Brady Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Brady Township is more historic than 52% of U.S. towns. 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.
25% of Brady Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±7.1 points), against a typical 18% for a Pennsylvania town; the median home was built in 1977.
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).
From Wikimedia Commons (10), 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.
