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History · Homer Township

Homer Township’s post office opened in 1849

Most of Homer Township was built recently: 6% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1984. Below: maps from 1948 on and the census since 2000.

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Photo: Doug Kerr from Albany, NY, United States · CC BY-SA 2.0
Quick answers

How Homer Township began

When was Homer Township founded?

1849

The Homer Township post office opened in 1849, the earliest record of the town by name. Three smaller post offices, Homer (1849), Ayer's Hill (1858) and Inez (1884), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

First census: 390 in 20002020 census: 438177 years
Founding year: the first Homer Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Homer Township’s past

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

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Homer Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages3 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Homer Township, and 2 old place names are still on the map.Deep rootsA post office since 1849: 177 years of Homer Township.
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Start Homer Township’s collection

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

Decades since 1900 with photos
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Places that used to be

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

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

Homer
1849–1870
Ayer's Hill
1858–1892
Inez
1884–1909
18401930today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Ayers HillInez
Gone or out of use
Homer Post Officepost office
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Homer Township
Ayers HillIanson

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

Timeline

Homer Township, 1849 to 1948

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1849Post officeThe Homer post office opens
  3. 1858Post officeThe Ayer's Hill post office opens
  4. 1870Post officeThe Homer post office closes
  5. 1884Post officeThe Inez post office opens
  6. 1892Post officeThe Ayer's Hill post office closes
  7. 20th century
  8. 1909Post officeThe Inez post office closes
  9. 1948On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
The story so far

Homer Township, in brief

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

Homer Township is a township in Potter County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 438 at the 2020 census.

Its first post office opened in 1849. Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 437 in 2010, 438 in 2020.

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

By decade

Homer Township, decade by decade

Today4 recent
Pennsylvania State Route 8722013Pennsylvania State Route 872PA 872 nb in Homer Township (2)2013PA 872 nb in Homer Township (2)PA 872 nb in Homer Township (1)2013PA 872 nb in Homer Township (1)Map of Potter County, Pennsylvania Highlighting Homer Township2008Map of Potter County, Pennsylvania Highlighting Homer…Map
On the map

Homer Township on the map, 1948 to 1971

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

Homer Township on the 1948 USGS mapHomer Township on the 1950 USGS mapHomer Township on the 1971 USGS map1948Austin 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 Homer Township.

People over time

Homer Township, census by census

010020030040020002020Peak: 438

Between 390 and 438 people in every census since 2000.

3 censuses, 2000–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Homer Township’s Wikipedia page.

Famous people

Famous people close to Homer Township

Nobody well known was born in Homer Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Riki LindhomeAmerican actress · b. 1979
Joseph T. McNarneyUnited States Army general · b. 1893
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Clair Alan BrownEnglish botanist · b. 1903
Josh KinneyAmerican baseball player · b. 1979
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William A. ShearAmerican arachnologist and myriapodologist · b. 1942
Grace Sartwell MasonAmerican journalist, critic, and writer · b. 1876
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Sylvania TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townEulalia TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townSummit TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townKeating TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Homer Township’s history

What year was Homer Township founded?

The Homer Township post office opened in 1849, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

Memory lane

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 Wikimedia Commons (4), 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.