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History · Porter Township

Half of Porter Township’s homes were built after 1976

Most of Porter Township was built recently: 10% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1976. Below: maps from 1943 on.

0on the National Register
10%homes built before 1940
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Photo: Nicholas · CC BY 2.0

What stands out about Porter 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 Porter Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Porter Township, and 2 old place names are still on the map.
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Start Porter Township’s collection

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

Decades since 1900 with photos
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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 and places now gone

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

Hunters Range
1873–1886
Pecks Pond
1939–1967
18701950today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Pecks PondPine Flats
Gone or out of use
Pecks Pond Post Officepost office

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

The story so far

Porter Township, in brief

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

Porter Township is a township in Pike County, Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 485.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 485 to 551 (+14%).

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

Timeline

Porter Township, 1873 to 1967

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1873Post officeThe Hunters Range post office opens
  3. 1886Post officeThe Hunters Range post office closes
  4. 20th century
  5. 1939Post officeThe Pecks Pond post office opens
  6. 1943On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  7. 1967Post officeThe Pecks Pond post office closes
By decade

Porter Township, decade by decade

Today6 recent
Pecks Pond Inn, Porter Township, Pike County, PA, July 20262026Pecks Pond Inn, Porter Township, Pike County, PA, Jul…Old sheds, Porter Township, Pike County, PA, July 20262026Old sheds, Porter Township, Pike County, PA, July 2026Flickr - Nicholas T - Snow Hill Falls2010Flickr - Nicholas T - Snow Hill FallsFlickr - Nicholas T - Glazed2007Flickr - Nicholas T - GlazedAutumn Prelude2007Autumn PreludePainter Swamp2006Painter Swamp
On the map

Porter Township on the map, 1943 to 1994

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

Porter Township on the 1943 USGS mapPorter Township on the 1968 USGS mapPorter Township on the 1973 USGS mapPorter Township on the 1983 USGS mapPorter Township on the 1994 USGS map1943Twelvemile Pond 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 Porter Township.

Famous people

Famous people close to Porter Township

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

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Jayson TerdimanAmerican luger · b. 1988
Benjamin LundyAmerican Quaker abolitionist · b. 1789
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Shelby StarnerAmerican singer-songwriter · b. 1984
David CortrightAmerican peace studies scholar · b. 1946
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Bob StetlerAmerican soccer player · b. 1952
Kyshoen JarrettAmerican football player, coach, and executive · b. 1993
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Middle Smithfield Township6 historic placesB−Price TownshipIts storyDLehman Township5 historic placesB−Delaware Township2 historic placesB−Greene Township2 historic placesB+

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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 Wikimedia Commons (6), 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.