Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: maps from 1899 on and the census since 2000.
The Brookfield Township post office opened in 1830, the earliest record of the town by name. Four smaller post offices, Brookfield (1830), Austinburg (1878) and Sylvester (1880), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
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).
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Brookfield Township’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Brookfield 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 Brookfield Township.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Brookfield Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Brookfield Township is a township in Tioga County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 371 at the 2020 census.
Its first post office opened in 1830. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 421 to 371 (-12%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
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 SurveyWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Between 371 and 443 people in every census since 2000.
3 censuses, 2000–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Brookfield Township’s Wikipedia page.
Nobody well known was born in Brookfield Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The Brookfield Township post office opened in 1830, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
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 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.
