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History · Noyes Township

38% of Noyes Township’s homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1946 on and the census since 1980.

0on the National Register
38%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Noyes Township’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

Lost villages4 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Noyes Township, and 6 old place names are still on the map.A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Noyes Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Noyes Township’s homes were built before 1957.
★ What stands out · Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

Four other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.

Cook's Run
1834–1863
Westport
1850–today
Drury's Run
1856–1863
Shintown
1886–1909
Bitumen
1888–1929
18301930today
Hamlets and corners on the map
BitumenCooks RunDrury RunShintownWest RenovoWestport
Gone or out of use
Coffin Rocks Towertower
6cemeteries and burying grounds inside Noyes Township
Caldwell FamilyKeplerNoyesRobbinsSaint Marys CatholicShintown Methodist

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

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Start Noyes Township’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Noyes Township’s history is told.

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The story

How Noyes Township came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Noyes Township.

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Noyes Township was cut off and formed from Chapman Township in 1875, and was named in honor of Colonel A. C. Noyes, the most prominent citizen residing within the limits of the area. The first settlement in the territory was made around the time of the American Revolution, or shortly after, on the lower, north side and near the mouth of Kettle Creek.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Noyes Township, 1834 to 1946

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1834Post officeThe Cook's Run post office opens
  3. 1850Post officeThe Westport post office opens
  4. 1856Post officeThe Drury's Run post office opens
  5. 1863Post officeThe Cook's Run post office closes
  6. 1863Post officeThe Drury's Run post office closes
  7. 20th century
  8. 1946On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

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On the map

Noyes Township on the map, 1946 to 1986

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Noyes Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Noyes Township on the 1946 USGS mapNoyes Township on the 1971 USGS mapNoyes Township on the 1986 USGS map1946Renovo West sheet · 1:24,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Noyes Township.

People over time

Noyes Township, census by census

0100200300400500600700198020002020Peak: 631

Between 333 and 631 people in every census since 1980.

5 censuses, 1980–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Noyes Township’s Wikipedia page.

Famous people

Famous people close to Noyes Township

Nobody well known was born in Noyes Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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John RoachAmerican baseball player · b. 1867
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Lee GambleAmerican baseball player · b. 1910
Mike RoachAmerican baseball player · b. 1869
Bill FrielAmerican baseball player · b. 1876
Garrett CochranAmerican football player · b. 1876
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Joe MunsonAmerican baseball player · b. 1899
Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

RenovoIts storyA−Chapman TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townLeidy TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townEast Keating Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townGrugan TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townBeech Creek TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townSouth RenovoIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townBurnside TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

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Where this page comes from

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 Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), 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.