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History · Lumber Township

16% of Lumber Township’s homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1945 on and the census since 2000.

0on the National Register
16%homes built before 1940
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Photo: Nicholas T (Nicholas A. Tonelli) on Flickr · CC BY 2.0

What stands out about Lumber 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 Lumber Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages3 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Lumber Township, and 2 old place names are still on the map.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Lumber 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.

Cameron
1848–1954
Sterling Run
1862–1965
Canoe Run
1905–1913
18401930today
Hamlets and corners on the map
CameronSterling Run
Gone or out of use
Slyder Airportairport
1cemetery inside Lumber Township
Sterling Run

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

The story so far

Lumber Township, in brief

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

Lumber Township is a township in Cameron County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 178 at the 2020 census, down from 195 in 2010.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 195 to 182 (-7%).

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

Timeline

Lumber Township, 1848 to 1965

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1848Post officeThe Cameron post office opens
  3. 1862Post officeThe Sterling Run post office opens
  4. 20th century
  5. 1905Post officeThe Canoe Run post office opens
  6. 1913Post officeThe Canoe Run post office closes
  7. 1945On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  8. 1954Post officeThe Cameron post office closes
  9. 1965Post officeThe Sterling Run post office closes
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

Lumber Township on the map, 1945 to 1971

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

Lumber Township on the 1945 USGS mapLumber Township on the 1971 USGS map1945Cameron 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 Lumber Township.

People over time

Lumber Township, census by census

010020020002020Peak: 241

Between 178 and 241 people in every census since 2000.

3 censuses, 2000–2020.

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

Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Grove TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townPortage TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townShippen TownshipIts storyC−Portage TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townGibson 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 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.