Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 48% of U.S. towns · #773 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. What drives it
Most of Buffalo Township was built recently: 10% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1981. Below: maps from 1907 on and old-book passages.
Buffalo Township dates its founding to 1795 (Wikidata). Its post office opened in 1849.
More historic than 48% 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 48% of U.S. towns, #773 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. Its age 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 Buffalo 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: Wikidata (other dates in Quick answers). 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.
Three 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 Buffalo Township’s history is told.
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.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Buffalo Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Buffalo Township is a township in Butler County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 7,896 at the 2020 census.
Buffalo Township was established in 1795. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 7,307 to 7,900 (+8%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Buffalo Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
The first school officers in Buffalo Township were elected in 1834, and from that date until 1840 schoolhouses of hewed logs were erected, in part by the efforts of the citizens and partly by public money. There was great opposition to free schools, and public sentiment was about equally divided in favor of the new system and the old plan of tuition schools.
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Buffalo Township was one of the four original townships of Butler County. It was also one of the thirteen townships erected in 1804, and continued one of the largest in the county until it was reduced to its present area in 1854. It is well drained by Big Buffalo Creek, Little Buffalo Creek, Sarver’s Run, and Little Bull Creek, and contains many excellent and well improved farms. The Allegheny River touches the extreme southern corner. Coal mining
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Monroeville, or Silverville, in Buffalo Township, lies on parts of the old Duffy, Cypher, and McLaughlin farms, and was surveyed in 1839 by James Dunlap for Emil Maurhoff. The first building was erected by J. M. Elliott, and in 1840 a tavern was erected in this village by George Weaver.
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.
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyNobody well known was born in Buffalo Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
In 1795, according to Wikidata. Buffalo Township’s post office opened in 1849.
Buffalo Township is more historic than 48% of U.S. towns, #773 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. 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.
10% of Buffalo Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±5.2 points), against a typical 18% for a Pennsylvania town; the median home was built in 1981.
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 (2), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, 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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