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History · Herrick Township

Herrick Township’s post office opened in 1837, and 31% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1967 on.

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How Herrick Township began

When was Herrick Township founded?

1837

The Herrick Township post office opened in 1837, the earliest record of the town by name. Six smaller post offices, Herrick (1837), East Herrick (1839) and Herrickville (1843), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 737189 years
Founding year: the first Herrick Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Herrick Township’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

Lost villages6 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Herrick Township, and 2 old place names are still on the map.A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Herrick Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Deep rootsA post office since 1837: 189 years of Herrick Township.
★ What stands out · Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

Six other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.

Herrick
1837–1904
East Herrick
1839–1859
Herrickville
1843–1919
Ballibay
1871–1895
Stephens Corners
1893–1904
Cebu
1901–1903
18301930today
Hamlets and corners on the map
East HerrickHerrickville
Gone or out of use
Ballibay SchoolschoolCebu SchoolschoolHerrick Post Officepost officeJannone-Ballibay AirportairportLondon SchoolschoolSierra Ridge Airportairport
5cemeteries and burying grounds inside Herrick Township
BallibayEast HerrickHerrickvilleOverpeckSouth Herrick

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

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Start Herrick Township’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Herrick Township’s history is told.

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Timeline

Herrick Township, 1837 to 1967

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1837Post officeThe Herrick post office opens
  3. 1839Post officeThe East Herrick post office opens
  4. 1843Post officeThe Herrickville post office opens
  5. 1859Post officeThe East Herrick post office closes
  6. 1861Born hereWilbur Bacon Camp is born here
  7. 20th century
  8. 1904Post officeThe Herrick post office closes
  9. 1919Post officeThe Herrickville post office closes
  10. 1967On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
The story so far

Herrick Township, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Herrick Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Herrick Township is a township in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is part of Northeastern Pennsylvania. The population was 735 at the 2020 census. For years it was known for a chair sitting on a fence post as you entered the town from the south on route 1017.

Its first post office opened in 1837. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 754 to 737 (-2%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

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Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

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On the map

Herrick Township on the map, 1967 to 1981

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Herrick Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Herrick Township on the 1967 USGS mapHerrick Township on the 1978 USGS mapHerrick Township on the 1981 USGS map1967Le Raysville sheet · 1:24,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Herrick Township.

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Standing Stone TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townStevens TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townWyalusing Township1 historic placeAWysox Township1 historic placeA−

Questions about Herrick Township’s history

What year was Herrick Township founded?

The Herrick Township post office opened in 1837, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Where this page comes from

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 Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, 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.