Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 76% of U.S. towns. What drives it
Its Register listings are the "S" Bridge and the Levi Wilson Tavern. Below: maps from 1907 on and the census since 2000.
More historic than 76% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Buffalo Township is more historic than 76% of U.S. towns. All 2 inputs are above most U.S. towns; its National Register listings ranks highest and its share of homes from before 1940 lowest.
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 Buffalo Township’s 9.5 sits above most of its state (76% of Pennsylvania towns have fewer) while its 2 listings outnumber those of 60% 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 Buffalo 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).
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Buffalo 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 Buffalo Township.
From Wikipedia’s history of Buffalo Township.
The Caldwell Tavern, "S" Bridge, and Levi Wilson Tavern are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is home to the Mel Blount Youth Home.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention Buffalo Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
George Bloomingstock was reared in Buffalo Township, where he attended school and then learned the carpenter trade. For a number of years he engaged in carpenter and building work and put up many fine buildings in his day, but since 1893 he has given the larger part of his attention to farming. He continued to reside in Buffalo Township until 1907, when he came to Blaine Township and has lived here ever since. He owns very pro-
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
For some time after his marriage, in 1885, he resided in Buffalo Township, moving then to South Franklin Tow-nship and several years later back to Buffalo Township. In a few years after that return he went back to the old homestead in Canton Tow-nship, acquiring the same, and here has successfully engaged in general farming and stock raising until the present. He is a leading citizen of the township and has served in
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.
Built"S" Bridge is built
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyThe country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Between 1,984 and 2,100 people in every census since 2000.
3 censuses, 2000–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Buffalo Township’s Wikipedia page.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Buffalo Township is more historic than 76% 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.
Two places: the "S" Bridge (listed 1975) and the Levi Wilson Tavern (1996).
16% of Buffalo Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±7.7 points), against a typical 18% for a Pennsylvania town; the median home was built in 1973.
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 (3), Wikidata (2), the National Register of Historic Places (2), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, 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.
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