Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 32% of U.S. towns · #935 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. What drives it
Below: maps from 1941 on and the census since 2000.
More historic than 32% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Fox Township is more historic than 32% of U.S. towns, #935 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. Its share of homes from before 1940 holds the grade up; its National Register listings pull 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 Fox Township’s 0.0 sits below most of its state (25% of Pennsylvania towns have fewer) while its 0 listings outnumber those of 23% 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.
Two 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 first neighbors to add old photos shape how Fox Township’s history is told.
From Wikipedia’s history of Fox Township.
The first settlers arrived in the area around 1810. Coal mining took place as early as 1848. Kersey Coal Company and Northwestern Mining & Exchange Company had mines in place by the 1880s.
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.
2024PA 948 sb in Kersey (3), Aug. 2024
2024PA 948 sb in Kersey (2), Aug. 2024
2024PA 948 sb in Kersey (1), Aug. 2024
2024PA 948 sb in Fox Twp., Aug. 2024
2024PA 948 sb entering Kersey, Aug. 2024
2024PA 948 sb approaching PA 255, Aug. 2024
2024Kersey, PA post office and business, Aug. 2024
2015South of St Marys on PA255
2008Map of Elk County, Pennsylvania Highlighting Fox Town…MapEvery edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Fox 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 Fox Township.
Between 3,577 and 3,734 people in every census since 2000.
3 censuses, 2000–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Fox Township’s Wikipedia page.
Nobody well known was born in Fox Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Fox Township is more historic than 32% of U.S. towns, #935 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.
12% of Fox Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±4.7 points), against a typical 18% for a Pennsylvania town; the median home was built in 1981.
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 (9), Wikipedia, 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.
