Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 94% of U.S. towns. What drives it
4 places in town are on the National Register. Below: 1 old photo or paper, maps from 1924 on, and the census since 2000.
Gregg Township dates its founding to 1826 (Wikidata). The census first counted it in 2000.
More historic than 94% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Gregg Township is more historic than 94% of U.S. towns. All 3 inputs are above most U.S. towns; its share of homes from before 1940 ranks highest and its age lowest.
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 Gregg Township’s 65.4 sits above most of its state (87% of Pennsylvania towns have fewer) while its 14 historic buildings outnumber those of 78% of U.S. towns.
Founding year: Wikidata (other dates in Quick answers). 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.
Four 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 Gregg Township’s history is told.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
BuiltAndrew Gregg Homestead is built
In the archiveAtlas of Centre County, Pennsylvania
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyFrom Wikipedia’s history of Gregg Township.
According to a post office directory published in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania with data from the 1890 United States census:
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
One decade in the archive so far: the 1870s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Gregg 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 Gregg Township.
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.
Between 2,119 and 2,405 people in every census since 2000.
3 censuses, 2000–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Gregg Township’s Wikipedia page.
Nobody well known was born in Gregg Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
In 1826, according to Wikidata. Gregg Township’s post office opened in 1820, and the census of 2000 counted 2,119 people here.
Gregg Township is more historic than 94% of U.S. towns. 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.
4 listings: 4 buildings, among them the William Allison House (listed 1977, the first). 14 historic buildings in all.
36% of Gregg Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±8.1 points), against a typical 18% for a Pennsylvania town; the median home was built in 1968.
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 (7), Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (4), 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.
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