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History · Keating Township

14% of Keating Township’s homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1948 on and the census since 2000.

0on the National Register
14%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Keating 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 Keating Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages3 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Keating Township, and 2 old place names are still on the map.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Keating Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
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Places that used to be

Lost post offices and old corners

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

Forest House
1869–1901
Odin
1884–1909
Keating Summit
1901–1965
18601940today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Keating SummitOdin

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

The story so far

Keating Township, in brief

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

Keating Township is a township in Potter County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 289 at the 2020 census.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 312 to 286 (-8%).

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

Timeline

Keating Township, 1869 to 1965

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1869Post officeThe Forest House post office opens
  3. 1884Post officeThe Odin post office opens
  4. 20th century
  5. 1901Post officeThe Forest House post office closes
  6. 1901Post officeThe Keating Summit post office opens
  7. 1909Post officeThe Odin post office closes
  8. 1948On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  9. 1965Post officeThe Keating Summit post office closes
By decade

Keating Township, decade by decade

Today3 recent
2022-06-14 14 40 37 View south along Pennsylvania State Route 607 at Pennsylvania State Route 155 in Keating Township, …20222022-06-14 14 40 37 View south along Pennsylvania Sta…Pennsylvania State Route 8722013Pennsylvania State Route 872Map of Potter County, Pennsylvania Highlighting Keating Township2008Map of Potter County, Pennsylvania Highlighting Keati…Map
On the map

Keating Township on the map, 1948 to 1971

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

Keating Township on the 1948 USGS mapKeating Township on the 1950 USGS mapKeating Township on the 1971 USGS map1948Keating Summit 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 Keating Township.

People over time

Keating Township, census by census

010020030020002020Peak: 312

Between 289 and 312 people in every census since 2000.

3 censuses, 2000–2020.

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

Famous people

Famous people close to Keating Township

Nobody well known was born in Keating 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
Fielder JonesAmerican baseball player and coach · b. 1871
Albert W. JohnsonAmerican politician; U.S. representative from P… · b. 1906
Josh KinneyAmerican baseball player · b. 1979
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Roulette TownshipIts storyB+Austin1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townHomer TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townPortage TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

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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 (3), Wikidata (1), 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.