Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: maps from 1889 on and old-book passages.
The McKeansburg post office opened in 1820, the earliest record of the town by name.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how McKeansburg’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of McKeansburg. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of McKeansburg.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of McKeansburg yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
McKeansburg is a census-designated place (CDP) in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. The population was 169 at the 2020 census.
Its first post office opened in 1820. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 163 to 169 (+4%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention McKeansburg, cut from the printed page as they were published.
accompanied his parental family to America, and settled in Berks county, Pa. There he learned the wheelrights' trade, and followed that business for many years. In 1793 he moved to McKeansburg, where he owned a farm of 400 acres and ended his days as a farmer in that locality. He donated the land for the first church and school in McKeansburg, that town being laid out in the year of his removal there. Baltzer Bock was a soldier under Washington during the War
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man citizen. Kepners, a village on the branch of the Lehigh Valley Railway, was named after the family. Bernhard Kepner kept a tavern on the Catawissa road, one mile north of McKeansburg, then Northampton County. He was in the Revolutionary War and is buried at McKeansburg. Attorney L. D. Haughawout, of Pottsville, claims two members of his family as having been in the Revolutionary War and others in the later wars in which the United States
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Nobody well known was born in McKeansburg itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
The McKeansburg post office opened in 1820, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
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 and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
