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More historic than 63% of U.S. towns · #562 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. What drives it
Most of Concord Township was built recently: 4% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1997. Below: 6 old photos and papers, maps from 1901 on, and the census since 1930.
More historic than 63% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Concord Township is more historic than 63% of U.S. towns, #562 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. Its National Register listings hold the grade up; its share of homes from before 1940 pulls 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 Concord Township’s 56.9 sits above most of its state (86% of Pennsylvania towns have fewer) while its 104 historic buildings outnumber those of 90% 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.
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).
The 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.
From Wikipedia’s history of Concord Township.
Concord Township is first mentioned in court records on June 27, 1683, when John Mendenhall was appointed constable of "Concord liberty".
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Born hereJohn Larkin, Jr. is born here
In the archiveCombination atlas map of Delaware County, Pennsylvania
In the archive1940 Census Enumeration District Maps - Pennsylvania - Delaware County - Concord - ED 23-…
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey2 decades in the archive, from the 1870s to the 1880s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
1875Combination atlas map of Delaware County, PennsylvaniaMap
1875Combination atlas map of Delaware County, PennsylvaniaMap
1875Combination atlas map of Delaware County, PennsylvaniaMap
1875Combination atlas map of Delaware County, PennsylvaniaMap18801940 Census Enumeration District Maps - Pennsylvania …
1884John Larkin JrEvery edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Concord 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 Concord Township.
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 Concord Township’s page.
Retake this view · +15Grew from 1,546 people in 1930 to 18,295 in 2020, more than tenfold.
10 censuses, 1930–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Concord Township’s Wikipedia page.
Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.
Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Concord Township is more historic than 63% of U.S. towns, #562 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.
11 listings: 7 buildings, among them the Nicholas Newlin House (listed 1972, the first), and 4 historic districts with 89 contributing buildings. 104 historic buildings in all.
4% of Concord Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±3.0 points), against a typical 18% for a Pennsylvania town; the median home was built in 1997.
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 (6), the National Register of Historic Places (11), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, 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.
