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History · Burnside Township

15% of Burnside Township’s homes were built before 1940

Below: 1 old photo or paper, maps from 1928 on, and the census since 2000.

0on the National Register
15%homes built before 1940
1old photo or paper
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Photo: Nicholas · CC BY 2.0

What stands out about Burnside 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 writtenOnly 1 old photo is in the public archives. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Burnside Township, and 3 old place names are still on the map.
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Start Burnside Township’s collection

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

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
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Places that used to be

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

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

Pine Swamp
1854–1860
Pine Glen
1860–1940
18501940today
Hamlets and corners on the map
German SettlementPine GlenTwin Hollows
Gone or out of use
Confer QuarrymineGerman Settlement SchoolschoolLaurel Run SchoolschoolLower Star SchoolschoolPine CamplocaleWalnut Bottom Camplocale
1cemetery inside Burnside Township
Pine Glen

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

The story so far

Burnside Township, in brief

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

Burnside Township is a township in Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is part of the State College, Pennsylvania, Metropolitan Statistical Area. The CDP of Pine Glen is within Burnside Township. The population was 417 at the 2020 census.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 439 to 411 (-6%).

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

Timeline

Burnside Township, 1854 to 1940

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1854Post officeThe Pine Swamp post office opens
  3. 1860Post officeThe Pine Swamp post office closes
  4. 1860Post officeThe Pine Glen post office opens
  5. 1874In the archiveAtlas of Centre County, Pennsylvania
  6. 20th century
  7. 1928On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  8. 1940Post officeThe Pine Glen post office closes
By decade

Burnside Township, decade by decade

One decade in the archive so far: the 1870s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.

1870s1 item
Atlas of Centre County, Pennsylvania1874Atlas of Centre County, PennsylvaniaMap
Today2 recent
Karthaus Truss Bridge Steelwork2010Karthaus Truss Bridge SteelworkBurnside Township Downhill2010Burnside Township Downhill
On the map

Burnside Township on the map, 1928 to 1971

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

Burnside Township on the 1928 USGS mapBurnside Township on the 1931 USGS mapBurnside Township on the 1960 USGS mapBurnside Township on the 1971 USGS map1928Snow Shoe 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 Burnside Township.

People over time

Burnside Township, census by census

010020030040020002020Peak: 439

Between 410 and 439 people in every census since 2000.

3 censuses, 2000–2020.

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

Famous people

Famous people close to Burnside Township

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

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Jonathan FrakesAmerican actor and director · b. 1952
Jeff VanderMeerAmerican writer · b. 1968
Glenn ThompsonU.S. Representative from Pennsylvania · b. 1959
Andrew Gregg CurtinAmerican politician · b. 1815
George Grey BarnardAmerican sculptor · b. 1863
John Montgomery WardAmerican Major League Baseball pitcher, shortst… · b. 1860
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Karthaus TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townCooper Township1 historic placeA−West Keating TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townEast Keating Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townSnow Shoe TownshipIts storyC+Beech Creek TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townCurtin TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townNoyes TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Burnside Township’s history

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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 Wikimedia Commons (3), 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.