Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: maps from 1903 on and the census since 1970.
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 Chest Township’s history is told.
Four 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 Chest 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 Chest Township.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Chest Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Chest Township is a township in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 510 at the 2020 census.
Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 515 in 2010, 511 in 2020.
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Chest Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Mr. Diehl has been an active and interested citizen ever since coming to Chest Township. He has always endeavored to bring about improvement and progress in the public schools and has served on the school board at different times, has also been constable and township supervisor, and in 1907 was elected a justice of the peace in Chest Township.
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
returned to Cambria County, where he operated the Walters mill for some seven years following which he came to the Hurd grist mill in Chest Township, which he conducted until 1896, since when he has been retired from active work.
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 SurveyBetween 469 and 611 people in every census since 1970.
6 censuses, 1970–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Chest Township’s Wikipedia page.
Nobody well known was born in Chest Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
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). 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), 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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