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History · Brush Creek Township

29% of Brush Creek Township’s homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1935 on and the census since 2000.

0on the National Register
29%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Brush Creek Township’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

Lost villages3 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Brush Creek Township, and 8 old place names are still on the map.A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Brush Creek Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
★ What stands out · Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

Three other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.

Akersville
1860–1935
Emmaville
1862–1933
Crystal Spring
1890–today
Bills Place
1935–1953
18601940today
Hamlets and corners on the map
AkersvilleBills PlaceBudds PlaceCrystal SpringEmmavilleFlickervilleOld Mountain HouseShortys Place
Gone or out of use
Buffalo SchoolschoolOak Grove Schoolschool
8cemeteries and burying grounds inside Brush Creek Township
AkersvilleBrush Creek ValleyEnsleyJerusalem ChristianMcKendree Methodist Episcopal ChurchRohmUnion ChristianWhips Cove

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

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Start Brush Creek Township’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Brush Creek Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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The story so far

Brush Creek Township, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Brush Creek Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Brush Creek Township is a township in Fulton County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 736 at the 2020 census.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 819 to 732 (-11%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline

Brush Creek Township, 1860 to 1935

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1860Post officeThe Akersville post office opens
  3. 1862Post officeThe Emmaville post office opens
  4. 1890Post officeThe Crystal Spring post office opens
  5. 20th century
  6. 1933Post officeThe Emmaville post office closes
  7. 1935Post officeThe Akersville post office closes
  8. 1935On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

No old photos in the archives yet

Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

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On the map

Brush Creek Township on the map, 1935 to 1973

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Brush Creek Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Brush Creek Township on the 1935 USGS mapBrush Creek Township on the 1967 USGS mapBrush Creek Township on the 1973 USGS map1935Needmore 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 Brush Creek Township.

People over time

Brush Creek Township, census by census

020040060080020002020Peak: 819

Between 730 and 819 people in every census since 2000.

3 censuses, 2000–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Brush Creek Township’s Wikipedia page.

Famous people

Famous people close to Brush Creek Township

Nobody well known was born in Brush Creek Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Dean KoontzAmerican writer and screenwriter · b. 1945
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Jordan OttAmerican basketball coach · b. 1985
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Willard Ray CusterAmerican aerospace engineer · b. 1899
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Coley McCabeAmerican musician
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Earl HowardAmerican baseball player · b. 1896
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Hughie TateAmerican baseball player · b. 1880
Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

East Providence Township2 historic placesA−Belfast TownshipIts storyB−Licking Creek TownshipIts storyB+Monroe TownshipIts storyB−Bethel TownshipIts storyC−Valley-HiIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townWells TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townUnion TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

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Sources

Where this page comes from

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.