Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 30% of U.S. towns. What drives it
Below: maps from 1910 on and old-book passages.
More historic than 30% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Cherry Township is more historic than 30% of U.S. towns. Its share of homes from before 1940 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 Cherry 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: 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.
Five 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 Cherry Township’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Cherry 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 Cherry Township.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Cherry Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Cherry Township is a township in Butler County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,106 at the 2010 census.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 1,106 to 1,054 (-5%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Cherry Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
The territory embraced by Cherry Township was opened up about the same time as the sections adjoining it, and it claims Benedict Grossman as its first settler. He came to Cherry Township in 1797, accompanied by his family, which included his son-in-law, Robert Black, and brought with him a small stock of goods for sale.
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
Pleasant Valley Presbyterian Church, in Cherry Township, was organized in 1845 by Revs. Loyal Young and John Munson. The congregation built a house of worship, in 1846, which was later remodeled. Rev. John Moore was installed first pastor in 1847.
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 Cherry Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Cherry Township is more historic than 30% 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.
11% of Cherry 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 1982.
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 (1), 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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