Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 56% of U.S. towns · #649 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. What drives it
Its Register listing is the Frantz School. Below: 2 old photos and papers, maps from 1914 on, and the census since 2000.
More historic than 56% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Eldred Township is more historic than 56% of U.S. towns, #649 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 Eldred Township’s 3.9 sits near the middle of its state (64% of Pennsylvania towns have fewer) while its 1 listings outnumber those of 51% 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.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Eldred Township’s history is told.
Old hamlets and crossroads still carry their names on the map.
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 Eldred 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 Eldred Township.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Eldred Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Eldred Township is a township in Monroe County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 2,594 at the 2020 census.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 2,910 to 2,596 (-11%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
2023Eldred Township, Monroe County, PA municipal building…
2023Chestnut Ridge Railway caboose, July 2023
20222022-09-09 17 24 16 UTC minus 4 Aerial view of southw…
2017Interior of the 1855 One Room Schoolhouse in Eldred T…
20141855 One Room School Eldred Township Monroe County Pa
2009Eldred Townhip, Monroe County, Spring CuspNo 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 Eldred 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 2,594 and 2,910 people in every census since 2000.
3 censuses, 2000–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Eldred Township’s Wikipedia page.
Nobody well known was born in Eldred Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Eldred Township is more historic than 56% of U.S. towns, #649 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.
One place: the Frantz School (listed 2022).
11% of Eldred 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 1978.
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 Library of Congress (2), the National Register of Historic Places (1), 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.
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