Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: maps from 1906 on and the census since 2000.
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 Pine Township’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Pine 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 Pine Township.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Pine Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Pine Township is a township in Crawford County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 433 at the 2020 census, down from 462 at the 2010 census.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 462 to 432 (-6%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Pine Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
east part of Pine Township, and including in its limits the south half of Tract 741 and the north half of Tract 750. It contained in 1870 a population of 432, which in 1880 had increased to 550. The Erie & Pittsburgh Railroad passes through the village, which is also the western terminus of the Meadville & Linesville Railroad.
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.
Between 433 and 531 people in every census since 2000.
3 censuses, 2000–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Pine Township’s Wikipedia page.
Nobody well known was born in Pine Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
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 Wikimedia Commons (3), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), 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.
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