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History · Leroy Township

Leroy Township’s post office opened in 1835, and 40% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1943 on.

1835first post office
0on the National Register
40%homes built before 1940
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Quick answers

How Leroy Township began

When was Leroy Township founded?

1835

The Leroy Township post office opened in 1835, the earliest record of the town by name. Two smaller post offices, West Le Roy (1885) and West Terry (1890), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 635191 years
Founding year: the first Leroy Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Leroy 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 Leroy Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Leroy Township, and 4 old place names are still on the map.Deep rootsA post office since 1835: 191 years of Leroy Township.
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Start Leroy Township’s collection

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

Decades since 1900 with photos
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
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Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners and burying grounds

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

Le Roy
1835–today
West Le Roy
1885–1895
West Terry
1890–1904
18301930today
Hamlets and corners on the map
CarbonCold SpringLeroyWest Leroy
3cemeteries and burying grounds inside Leroy Township
HolcombLeroyMott Family

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

Timeline

Leroy Township, 1835 to 1943

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1835Post officeThe Le Roy post office opens
  3. 1885Post officeThe West Le Roy post office opens
  4. 1890Post officeThe West Terry post office opens
  5. 1895Post officeThe West Le Roy post office closes
  6. 20th century
  7. 1904Post officeThe West Terry post office closes
  8. 1943On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
The story so far

Leroy Township, in brief

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

LeRoy Township is a township in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is part of Northeastern Pennsylvania. The population was 632 at the 2020 census.

Its first post office opened in 1835. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 718 to 635 (-12%).

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

By decade

No old photos in the archives yet

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

Leroy Township on the map, 1943 to 1969

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

Leroy Township on the 1943 USGS mapLeroy Township on the 1969 USGS map1943Powell sheet · 1:62,500

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

Famous people

Famous people close to Leroy Township

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

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Jesse SpringAmerican ice hockey player · b. 1901
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Garland GrangePlayer of American football · b. 1906
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Kenneth E. CasterAmerican paleontologist · b. 1908
S
Sadler RogersAmerican bridge engineer · b. 1831
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Granville TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townCanton TownshipIts storyB

Questions about Leroy Township’s history

What year was Leroy Township founded?

The Leroy Township post office opened in 1835, 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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Sources

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 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.