Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Its Register listing is the Forksville Covered Bridge. Below: 1 old photo or paper, maps from 1932 on, and the census since 1880.
Forksville dates its founding to 1794 (Wikidata). The census first counted it in 1880.
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 Forksville’s history is told.
From Wikipedia’s history of Forksville.
The Forksville Covered Bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. Forksville was first permanently settled by William Molyneaux, John Warren and Powell Bird. A sawmill was built in the Forksville area in 1810. Forksville was formed from Forks Township in 1880.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Peaked at 191 in 1890; 111 people lived here in 2020.
15 censuses, 1880–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Forksville’s Wikipedia page.
Passages that mention Forksville, cut from the printed page as they were published.
son, Moses, who was born in 1806, took the land after his father’s death, and occupied it for many years. He laid out the village of Forksville in 1854, and lived to see it a prosperous town. He was a quiet, unobtrusive, but highly intelligent man, who was greatly respected in the county. He died in February, 1879. His sons were Saddler
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Rev. Charles Shonabacher; Moses L.. a carpenter at Lincoln Falls, Pennsylvania; John W. , who is still on the homestead farm at Forksville; Washington E.. a clerk in a drug store at Forksville; and Maude, who resides with her mother at the old home at Forksville.
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 SurveyEvery edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Forksville. 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 Forksville.
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.
Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
In 1794, according to Wikidata. Forksville’s post office opened in 1856, and the census of 1880 counted 108 people here.
One place: the Forksville 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 (10), Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (1), 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), 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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