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Maitland is a census-designated place in Derry Township, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, United States, just outside the borough of Lewistown. At the 2010 census, the population was 357.
Its first post office opened in 1873. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 357 to 323 (-10%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
From the old history books
What they wrote about Maitland in 1879
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The first station on the Sunbury railroad, east of Lewistown, la Maitland, on Jack's Creek, near or more properly directly at the foot of Shade Mountain. It has one fine grist mill, two stores, a post office, a church, school houses, &c., and is surrounded by evergreen clad hills and mountains. Near here is also a great natural curiosity, in the way of a cavern. Though it has never been explored, if its chambers contain anything of the natural curiosities that the other caverns of Mifflin county does, it will well repay an
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Maitland Station, four miles east of Lewistown, is the most western point along this line where prospecting has been done. William Howe, shafted upon the sand vein ore bed, which proved a good, soft fossil ore, sixteen to eighteen inches in thickness.
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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 →
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