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History · Buck Township

14% of Buck Township’s homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1922 on.

0on the National Register
14%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Buck Township’s past

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

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Buck Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.On the map since 19225 editions of the USGS map, 1922 to 1992. Watch Buck Township change.
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On the map

Buck Township on the map, 1922 to 1992

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

Buck Township on the 1922 USGS mapBuck Township on the 1943 USGS mapBuck Township on the 1965 USGS mapBuck Township on the 1973 USGS mapBuck Township on the 1992 USGS map1922Stoddartsville 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 Buck Township.

The story

How Buck Township came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Buck Township.

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The area was first settled in the 1780s by John Nagle. The first sawmill was erected in 1806 by Hugh Conner. Many more sawmills were constructed in the area throughout the 19th century. John Stoddart established the hamlet of Stoddartsville in 1815. The following year (in 1816), he constructed the first church in the village. The Stoddartsville Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

Buck Township was formed from Covington Township is 1833. The new township was named after one of its early settlers — George Buck.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Buck Township, 1814 to 1940

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1814Post officeThe Stoddartsville post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1922On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  5. 1940Post officeThe Stoddartsville post office closes
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Famous people

Famous people close to Buck Township

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

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Walter TewksburyAthletics competitor · b. 1876
Russell David JohnsonAmerican television and film actor · b. 1924
Marion LorneAmerican actress · b. 1883
Alexander Mitchell PalmerAmerican politician · b. 1872
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Eusebius J. BeltranAmerican Roman Catholic prelate · b. 1934
John J. DempseyAmerican politician · b. 1879
Places that used to be

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

Another post office, Stoddartsville, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Hamlets and corners on the map
Shades GlenStoddartsville
Gone or out of use
Stoddartsville Post Officepost office
1cemetery inside Buck Township
Stoddartsville

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

Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Thornhurst TownshipIts storyCTobyhanna TownshipIts storyC−Kidder TownshipIts storyDBear Creek TownshipIts storyD

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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 Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, 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.