Guest, Sign inJoin

Post to Point Township

We’ll email a one-tap link to publish your post. No password, and nothing is public until you click it.
Already a member? Sign in
BHistory
History · Point Township

Point Township dates to 1756, and 11% of its homes were built before 1940

More historic than 61% of U.S. towns · #593 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. What drives it

Below: maps from 1893 on.

1756founded
0on the National Register
11%homes built before 1940
Add an old photoShare a memory
Photo: Jakec · CC BY-SA 4.0
Quick answers

How Point Township began

When was Point Township founded?

1756

Point Township dates its founding to 1756 (Wikidata). Its post office opened in 1849.

2020 census: 3,832270 years

How historic is Point Township?

B

More historic than 61% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.

What drives the grade ↓
Founding year: Wikidata. First post office: 1849.
History grade

What drives Point Township’s History grade

On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Point Township is more historic than 61% of U.S. towns, #593 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. Its age holds the grade up; its National Register listings pull it down.

B
HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Point Township’s overall grade.
Founding era1756, from Wikidata: founded before 1776, an older era than 96% of U.S. townsA+Homes built before 194010.7% of homes (±5.0) · 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 61%
NewerOlder
Pennsylvania towns of 2,500+ (1,035)Ahead of 43%

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 Point 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.

NoteThe founding year comes from Wikidata alone; no second source gives 1756.
How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from C to A−. The pre-1940 share is a Census survey estimate (±5.0 points).

Founding year: Wikidata (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 Point 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 Point Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Point Township, and 6 old place names are still on the map.On the map since 18936 editions of the USGS map, 1893 to 1994. Watch Point Township change.Older than the countryEstablished in 1756, 20 years before the Declaration of Independence.
★ What stands out · Help out

Start Point Township’s collection

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

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
Places that used to be

Lost post offices and old corners

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

Chulasky
1849–1904
Cameronia
1861–1867
18401930today
Hamlets and corners on the map
CameronChulaskyKappKapp HeightsLithia SpringsOak Park

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

On the map

Point Township on the map, 1893 to 1994

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

Point Township on the 1893 USGS mapPoint Township on the 1943 USGS mapPoint Township on the 1953 USGS mapPoint Township on the 1965 USGS mapPoint Township on the 1973 USGS mapPoint Township on the 1994 USGS map1893Sunbury 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 Point Township.

The story so far

Point Township, in brief

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

Point Township is a township in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population at the 2010 Census was 3,685, a decline from the figure of 3,722 tabulated in 2000.

Point Township was established in 1756. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 3,685 to 3,832 (+4%).

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

Timeline

Point Township, 1756 to 1904

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

  1. 18th century
  2. 1756
    FoundingPoint Township is established
  3. 19th century
  4. 1849Post officeThe Chulasky post office opens
  5. 1861Post officeThe Cameronia post office opens
  6. 1867Post officeThe Cameronia post office closes
  7. 1893On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  8. 20th century
  9. 1904Post officeThe Chulasky post office closes
By decade

No old photos in the archives yet

Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

Be the first to add onePhotograph a print flat, in daylight, no flash.
Add from your album
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Union TownshipIts storyC+Upper Augusta Township2 historic placesA−WinfieldIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townLiberty Township3 historic placesA−Rush TownshipIts storyB−RiversideIts storyC+East Buffalo Township1 historic placeBMahoning TownshipIts storyBMonroe Township1 historic placeB+

Questions about Point Township’s history

What year was Point Township founded?

In 1756, according to Wikidata. Point Township’s post office opened in 1849.

How does Point Township rank for history?

Point Township is more historic than 61% of U.S. towns, #593 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.

How old are the homes in Point Township?

11% of Point Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±5.0 points), against a typical 18% for a Pennsylvania town; the median home was built in 1979.

Memory lane

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

Town Square →
Start a conversation
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 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.