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2022-06-13 17 35 34 View south along Pennsylvania State Route 426 (Spring Creek-Corry Road) at Blue Eye Road in Spring Creek Township, Warren County, PennsylvaniaPhoto: Famartin · CC BY-SA 4.0
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History · Spring Creek Township

Spring Creek Township’s post office opened in 1828, and 17% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1929 on and the census since 2000.

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Quick answers

How Spring Creek Township began

When was Spring Creek Township founded?

1828

The Spring Creek Township post office opened in 1828, the earliest record of the town by name. Two smaller post offices, West Spring Creek (1851) and East Branch (1876), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

First census: 872 in 20002020 census: 780198 years
Founding year: the first Spring Creek Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Spring Creek 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 Spring Creek Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Spring Creek Township, and 4 old place names are still on the map.Deep rootsA post office since 1828: 198 years of Spring Creek Township.
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Start Spring Creek Township’s collection

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

Decades since 1900 with photos
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Places that used to be

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

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

Spring Creek
1828–today
West Spring Creek
1851–1901
East Branch
1876–1906
18201920today
Hamlets and corners on the map
East BranchHorn SidingSpring CreekWest Spring Creek
Gone or out of use
Armitage SchoolschoolEastman SchoolschoolTubbs SchoolschoolWhite Chapelchurch
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Spring Creek Township
Brooks HillSpring Creek

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

Timeline

Spring Creek Township, 1828 to 1929

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1828Post officeThe Spring Creek post office opens
  3. 1851Post officeThe West Spring Creek post office opens
  4. 1876Post officeThe East Branch post office opens
  5. 1892Born hereRobert H. Jackson is born here
  6. 20th century
  7. 1901Post officeThe West Spring Creek post office closes
  8. 1905Born hereFerd Johnson is born here
  9. 1906Post officeThe East Branch post office closes
  10. 1929On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
The story so far

Spring Creek Township, in brief

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

Spring Creek Township is a township in Warren County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 776 at the 2020 census, down from 852 at the 2010 census.

Its first post office opened in 1828. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 852 to 780 (-8%).

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

By decade

Spring Creek Township, decade by decade

Today1 recent
2022-06-13 17 35 34 View south along Pennsylvania State Route 426 (Spring Creek-Corry Road) at Blue Eye Road in20222022-06-13 17 35 34 View south along Pennsylvania Sta…
On the map

Spring Creek Township on the map, 1929 to 1973

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

Spring Creek Township on the 1929 USGS mapSpring Creek Township on the 1932 USGS mapSpring Creek Township on the 1968 USGS mapSpring Creek Township on the 1973 USGS map1929Corry 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 Spring Creek Township.

People over time

Spring Creek Township, census by census

020040060080020002020Peak: 872

Between 776 and 872 people in every census since 2000.

3 censuses, 2000–2020.

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

Famous people

2 famous people were born in Spring Creek Township

Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.

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Robert H. JacksonUS Supreme Court justice from 1941 to 1954 · b. 1892
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Ferd JohnsonComic strip cartoonist · b. 1905
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Columbus TownshipIts storyB+Pittsfield TownshipIts storyBEldred TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townSparta TownshipIts storyC+Concord TownshipIts storyB−Freehold TownshipIts storyC

Questions about Spring Creek Township’s history

What year was Spring Creek Township founded?

The Spring Creek Township post office opened in 1828, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikimedia Commons (1), Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, 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.