Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Its Register listing is the Cogan House Covered Bridge. Below: 3 old photos and papers, maps from 1921 on, and the census since 1900.
Cogan House Township dates its founding to 1825 (Wikidata). The census first counted it in 1900.
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 Cogan House Township’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Cogan House 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 Cogan House Township.
From Wikipedia’s history of Cogan House Township.
Cogan House Township was formed from parts of Jackson and Mifflin townships on December 6, 1843.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention Cogan House Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Cogan House Township is one of the most fertile sections of Lycoming County in the valleys and there are many fine farms and prosperous farmers. It is the sixth in size and contains 39,360 acres. It was organized December 6, 1843, and was named for Daniel Cogan, who was one of the first settlers on Larry’s Creek. The surface of the country is rolling, with a small section mountainous. The old state road built in 1799 passes through it.
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.
In the archiveDraft of the Larry's Creek Plank Road, Lycoming County, Penn'a - 18 miles long
BuiltCogan House Covered Bridge is built
In the archive1940 Census Enumeration District Maps - Pennsylvania - Lycoming County - Cogan House - ED…
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey2 decades in the archive, from the 1850s to the 1880s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Cogan House Township’s page.
Retake this view · +15The 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 516 and 1,142 people in every census since 1900.
13 censuses, 1900–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Cogan House Township’s Wikipedia page.
Nobody well known was born in Cogan House Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
In 1825, according to Wikidata. Cogan House Township’s post office opened in 1854, and the census of 1900 counted 1,142 people here.
One place: the Cogan House Covered Bridge (listed 1980).
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 (5), Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikipedia, 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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