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Pittsfield Township’s post office opened in 1839, and 21% of its homes were built before 1940

More historic than 62% of U.S. towns. What drives it

Below: maps from 1926 on and the census since 2000.

1839first post office
0on the National Register
21%homes built before 1940
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Photo: Doug Kerr from Albany, NY, United States · CC BY-SA 2.0
Quick answers

How Pittsfield Township began

When was Pittsfield Township founded?

1839

The Pittsfield Township post office opened in 1839, the earliest record of the town by name. Three smaller post offices, Freehold (1847), Torpedo (1884) and Dugall (1886), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

First census: 1,519 in 20002020 census: 1,282187 years

How historic is Pittsfield Township?

B

More historic than 62% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.

What drives the grade ↓
Founding year: the first Pittsfield Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).
History grade

What drives Pittsfield Township’s History grade

On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Pittsfield Township is more historic than 62% of U.S. towns. Its age holds the grade up; its National Register listings pull it down.

B
HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Pittsfield Township’s overall grade.
Founding era1839, from the first post office: founded 1776–1849, an older era than 75% of U.S. townsA−Homes built before 194020.5% of homes (±5.4) · typical PA town 17.7% · U.S. 8.4%B+National RegisterNo listings counted · typical PA town 2.1 per 10,000 · U.S. 2.4C−
All U.S. towns we grade (21,289)Ahead of 62%
NewerOlder

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 Pittsfield 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.

How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from B− to A−. The pre-1940 share is a Census survey estimate (±5.4 points). The founding year is the first post office, not a stated founding date.

Founding year: the first post office (other dates in Quick answers). 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 →

What stands out about Pittsfield Township’s past

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

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Pittsfield Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages3 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Pittsfield Township, and 3 old place names are still on the map.Deep rootsA post office since 1839: 187 years of Pittsfield Township.
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Start Pittsfield Township’s collection

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

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
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Places that used to be

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

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

Pittsfield
1839–today
Freehold
1847–1903
Garland
1852–today
Torpedo
1884–1955
Dugall
1886–1903
18301930today
Hamlets and corners on the map
GarlandPittsfieldTorpedo
Gone or out of use
Cole Hill SchoolschoolSmith Hill Schoolschool
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Pittsfield Township
RiversideWhitestown

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

Timeline

Pittsfield Township, 1839 to 1926

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1839Post officeThe Pittsfield post office opens
  3. 1847Post officeThe Freehold post office opens
  4. 1852Post officeThe Garland post office opens
  5. 20th century
  6. 1903Post officeThe Freehold post office closes
  7. 1926On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
The story so far

Pittsfield Township, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Pittsfield Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Pittsfield Township is a township in Warren County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,282 at the 2020 census, down from 1,405 at the 2010 census. 1,519 at the 2000 census.

Its first post office opened in 1839. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 1,405 to 1,282 (-9%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

By decade

Pittsfield Township, decade by decade

Today6 recent
Pennsylvania State Route 272010Pennsylvania State Route 27Pennsylvania State Route 272010Pennsylvania State Route 27US Route 6 - Pennsylvania2006US Route 6 - PennsylvaniaUS Route 6 - Pennsylvania2006US Route 6 - PennsylvaniaUS Route 6 - Pennsylvania2006US Route 6 - PennsylvaniaUS Route 6 - Pennsylvania2006US Route 6 - Pennsylvania
On the map

Pittsfield Township on the map, 1926 to 1975

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

Pittsfield Township on the 1926 USGS mapPittsfield Township on the 1943 USGS mapPittsfield Township on the 1968 USGS mapPittsfield Township on the 1975 USGS map1926Youngsville sheet · 1:62,500

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

People over time

Pittsfield Township, census by census

02004006008001,0001,2001,4001,60020002020Peak: 1,519

Between 1,282 and 1,519 people in every census since 2000.

3 censuses, 2000–2020.

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

Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Brokenstraw Township1 historic placeA−Deerfield TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townSpring Creek TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townFreehold TownshipIts storyC

Questions about Pittsfield Township’s history

What year was Pittsfield Township founded?

The Pittsfield Township post office opened in 1839, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

How does Pittsfield Township rank for history?

Pittsfield Township is more historic than 62% of U.S. towns. 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.

How old are the homes in Pittsfield Township?

21% of Pittsfield Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±5.4 points), against a typical 18% for a Pennsylvania town; the median home was built in 1969.

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Sources

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).

From Wikimedia Commons (6), 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.