Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Its Register listing is the Blackwell Methodist Episcopal Church. Below: maps from 1946 on.
The Morris Township post office opened in 1833, the earliest record of the town by name. Four smaller post offices, Lloyd (1868), Hoytville (1882) and Lorenton (1891), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Four other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Morris Township’s history is told.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
BuiltBlackwell Methodist Episcopal Church is built
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyWikipedia doesn’t have a history of Morris Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Morris is an unincorporated community that is located in Morris Township, Tioga County, in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.
Its first post office opened in 1833. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 606 to 569 (-6%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Morris 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 Morris Township.
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The Morris Township post office opened in 1833, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
One place: the Blackwell Methodist Episcopal Church (listed 2013).
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 the National Register of Historic Places (1), 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.
