Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: Mr. Matté (if there is an issue with this image, contact me using this image's Commons talk page, my Commons user talk page, or my English Wikipedia user talk page; I'll know about it a lot faster) · CC BY-SA 4.0Below: 2 old photos and papers, maps from 1929 on, and the census since 2000.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Six 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 Girard Township’s history is told.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Girard Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Girard Township is a township in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 564 at the 2020 census.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 534 to 568 (+6%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Girard Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
after his marriage and then settled in Clearfield town, where he was engaged as freight agent for four and one-half years. He then moved to Girard Township and passed four years on a farm and from there came to a farm in Pike Township, where four more years were spent, following which he became freight and ticket agent for the Pennsylvania Railroad and also
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
served as school director and in 1904 was elected secretary of the school board. He was reelected to this office in 1906 and has served to the present time, 1910. Girard Township is noted for its excellent schools and this is due, in great part, to the interest taken in them by the township's representative men.
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.
In the archive1940 Census Enumeration District Maps - Pennsylvania - Clearfield County - Girard - ED 17…
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyOne decade in the archive so far: the 1880s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Girard 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 Girard Township.
No 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 Girard Township’s page.
Retake this view · +15Between 534 and 674 people in every census since 2000.
3 censuses, 2000–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Girard Township’s Wikipedia page.
Nobody well known was born in Girard Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
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 (6), 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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