Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 51% of U.S. towns · #732 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. What drives it
Below: maps from 1922 on and the census since 2000.
More historic than 51% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Morris Township is more historic than 51% of U.S. towns, #732 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. Its share of homes from before 1940 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 Morris 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: our sources. 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 Morris Township’s history is told.
Two 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).
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.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Morris Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Morris Township is a township that is located in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 2,776 at the time of the 2020 census.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 2,938 to 2,777 (-5%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Morris Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
ship, Clearfield County, in March, 1830. He bought a farm from James Allport, who was also a native of England and was the first settler in Morris Township. Samuel Waring was an educated man and was not only a farmer but also a teacher and a surgeon. His death occurred in 185 1, at the age of fifty-seven years.
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.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
2024West Branch Area High School, PA, Aug. 2024
2024PA 53 sb in Morrisdale, PA (2), Aug. 2024
2024PA 53 sb in Morrisdale, PA (1), Aug. 2024
2024PA 53 sb entering Morrisdale, PA, Aug. 2024
2024PA 53 sb entering Allport, Clearfield Co., PA, Aug. 2…
2024Morris Twp., Clearfield Co., PA municipal building, A…
2024Hawk Run, PA, Aug. 2024
2024Entering Hawk Run, PA from west, Aug. 2024
2024Allport Cutoff eb entering Morris Twp., PA near HS, A…Between 2,776 and 3,063 people in every census since 2000.
3 censuses, 2000–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Morris Township’s Wikipedia page.
Nobody well known was born in Morris Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Morris Township is more historic than 51% of U.S. towns, #732 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. 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.
24% of Morris Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±12.5 points), against a typical 18% for a Pennsylvania town; the median home was built in 1979.
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 (9), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), 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.
