Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 88% of U.S. towns · #215 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. What drives it
3 places in town are on the National Register, among them a historic district with 8 buildings. Below: maps from 1900 on.
More historic than 88% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, North Union Township is more historic than 88% of U.S. towns, #215 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. All 2 inputs are above most U.S. towns; its National Register listings ranks highest and its share of homes from before 1940 lowest.
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 North Union Township’s 15.5 sits above most of its state (81% of Pennsylvania towns have fewer) while its 18 historic buildings outnumber those of 79% 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.
Two other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.
Bethel Presbyterian Church Cemetery · Calvary Cemetery · Clearview Cemetery · Cove Run Cemetery - Old · Cove Run Church Cemetery · Fairview Cemetery · Fayette County Cemetery - New · Hebrew Cemetery Association Burial Grounds · Holy Society Cemetery · Hopwood Cemetery · Lincoln Cemetery · Park Place Cemetery · Reformed Jewish Cemetery · Saint Cecelia Cemetery · Saint John the Baptist Byzantine Catholic Cemetery · Saint Josephs Cemetery · Saint Mary's Nativity Roman Catholic Cemetery · Sylvan Heights Cemetery · Sylvan Heights Memorial Gardens · Thomas Cemetery · Zaring - Matthews Cemetery
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 North Union Township’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of North Union 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 North Union Township.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of North Union Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 12,728 to 11,828 (-7%).
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
BuiltOak Hill Estate is builtWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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.
North Union Township is more historic than 88% of U.S. towns, #215 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.
Three places: the Springer Farm (listed 1982), the Oak Hill Estate (1999) and the Summit Hotel (2005).
21% of North Union Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±4.4 points), against a typical 18% for a Pennsylvania town; the median home was built in 1965.
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 the National Register of Historic Places (3), 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.
