Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 64% of U.S. towns. What drives it
Below: 1 old photo or paper, maps from 1965 on, and old-book passages.
Mifflin Township dates its founding to 1790 (Wikidata).
More historic than 64% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Mifflin Township is more historic than 64% of U.S. towns. Its age holds the grade up; its National Register listings pull it down.
Pennsylvania towns list about as much on the Register as the country (a typical Pennsylvania town has 2.1 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Mifflin Township’s 0.0 sits below most of its state (25% of Pennsylvania towns have fewer) while its 0 listings outnumber those of 23% of U.S. towns.
Founding year: Wikidata (other dates in Quick answers). Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →
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 Mifflin Township’s history is told.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
In the archive1940 Census Enumeration District Maps - Pennsylvania - Lycoming County - Mifflin - ED 41-…
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyFrom Wikipedia’s history of Mifflin Township.
Mifflin Township was formed in 1803 by dividing Lycoming Township. It is named in honor of Thomas Mifflin, the first governor of Pennsylvania.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention Mifflin Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
John Murphy was the first settler who located: there before the year 1790. In later years Anthony Pepperman came to the region and built a log house. He also built a sawmill about a mile below Salladasburg. Mifflin Township was well timbered with pine and hemlock, and lumber operations were carried on extensively while the timber lasted. In 1872 a disastrous forest fire swept through a portion of the township and two villages, Gould and Carter, were almost completely wiped out.
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Mifflin Township.—Another of the old original townships is Mifflin, erected in 1803. It was named for Governor Thomas Mifflin. At one time its territory was very extensive, but from time to time portions of it have been taken away to form other townships until now it is the eighth in size, with an area of 30,320 acres.
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.
One decade in the archive so far: the 1880s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
2014Ramshackle House
2014Dilapidated House
2014Decaying House
2009Pennsylvania State Route 973
2008Larrys Creek at Canoe Run
2008Kline Hollow Waterfall
2008First Fork Larrys Creek Panorama
2008Big Kline Hollow Panorama
2007Second Fork Larrys Creek
2007Sawmill in Mifflin Township PA
2007Pennsylvania State Route 973
2007Camp Kiwanis SignEvery edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Mifflin Township. 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 Mifflin Township.
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Mifflin Township’s page.
Retake this view · +15Nobody well known was born in Mifflin Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
In 1790, according to Wikidata.
Mifflin Township is more historic than 64% of U.S. towns. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.
23% of Mifflin Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±17.2 points), against a typical 18% for a Pennsylvania town; the median home was built in 1985.
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).
From Wikimedia Commons (13), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, the USGS Geographic Names Information System 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.
