Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
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 Deer Creek Township’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Deer Creek 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 Deer Creek Township.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Deer Creek Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Deer Creek Township is a township in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 456 at the 2020 census, a decline from the figure of 502 in 2010.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 502 to 458 (-9%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Deer Creek Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
It was located in Deer Creek Township. James Montgomery was the champion distiller in the present township of New Vernon, he having built one there in 1828. George Sheakley erected a similar institution in Sheakleyville in 1817. All these sold the fluid at what would be considered now as phenomenally low rates. Sheakley, for example, retailed the product of his still at from twenty to thirty cents per gallon.
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 456 and 502 people in every census since 2000.
3 censuses, 2000–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Deer Creek Township’s Wikipedia page.
Nobody well known was born in Deer Creek Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Another post office, Sunol, 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).
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 (2), 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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