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History · Elk Township

14% of Elk Township’s homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1941 on and the census since 2000.

0on the National Register
14%homes built before 1940
1famous people
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Photo: Adam Moss · CC BY-SA 2.0

What stands out about Elk Township’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Elk Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages3 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Elk Township, and 4 old place names are still on the map.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Elk Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
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Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

Three other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.

Germany
1852–1903
Cornplanter
1868–1927
Scandia
1886–1917
18501940today
Hamlets and corners on the map
CornplanterCorydonOlmsteadScandia
Gone or out of use
Clendenning SchoolschoolPriest Hollow SchoolschoolReynolds Schoolschool
1cemetery inside Elk Township
Seven Dolors

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

The story so far

Elk Township, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Elk Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Elk Township is a township in Warren County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 468 at the 2020 census, down from 520 at the 2010 census. 551 at the 2000 census.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 520 to 481 (-8%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline

Elk Township, 1833 to 1941

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1833Born hereThaddeus C. Pound is born here
  3. 1852Post officeThe Germany post office opens
  4. 1868Post officeThe Cornplanter post office opens
  5. 1886Post officeThe Scandia post office opens
  6. 20th century
  7. 1903Post officeThe Germany post office closes
  8. 1917Post officeThe Scandia post office closes
  9. 1927Post officeThe Cornplanter post office closes
  10. 1941On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Elk Township, decade by decade

Today4 recent
Village of Scandia PA2022Village of Scandia PALate-season snowfall at Deep Wood, Elk Township, Warren County, Pennsylvania2021Late-season snowfall at Deep Wood, Elk Township, Warr…Along Scandia Road in Elk Township, Warren County, Pennsylvania2021Along Scandia Road in Elk Township, Warren County, Pe…Pennsylvania State Route 3462013Pennsylvania State Route 346
On the map

Elk Township on the map, 1941 to 1973

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Elk Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Elk Township on the 1941 USGS mapElk Township on the 1966 USGS mapElk Township on the 1973 USGS map1941Kinzua sheet · 1:62,500

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Elk Township.

People over time

Elk Township, census by census

010020030040050060020002020Peak: 551

Between 482 and 551 people in every census since 2000.

3 censuses, 2000–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Elk Township’s Wikipedia page.

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Mead TownshipIts storyC+Glade TownshipIts storyC+Pine Grove Township1 historic placeA−

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Where this page comes from

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 (4), 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.