Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: 1 old photo or paper, 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.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Goshen Township’s history is told.
Another post office, Shawsville, 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).
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Goshen Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Goshen Township is a township in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 393 at the 2020 census.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 435 to 390 (-10%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Goshen Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
The township was named Bradford in honor of former surveyor-general. William Bradford of Pennsylvania. The township is bounded on the north by parts of Goshen Township and Girard Township, east by Graham Township, south by Boggs Township and west by Lawrence Township and part of Goshen Township.
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 - Goshen - 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.
2024West Branch Susquehanna River upstream from Shawville…
2024Shawville Generating Station, PA, Aug. 2024
2024PA 879 wb in Croft, Aug. 2024
2024PA 879 wb entering Goshen Twp., Aug. 2024
2024PA 879 wb at PA 970, Aug. 2024
2024PA 879 wb approaching PA 970, Aug. 2024
2015Goshen Township, PA, USA
2015Bend in the Susquehanna, Goshen TownshipEvery edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Goshen 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 Goshen 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 Goshen Township’s page.
Retake this view · +15Between 393 and 496 people in every census since 2000.
3 censuses, 2000–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Goshen Township’s Wikipedia page.
Nobody well known was born in Goshen 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 (9), 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.
