Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 94% of U.S. towns · #129 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. What drives it
5 places in town are on the National Register, among them two historic districts with 158 buildings between them. Below: 4 old photos and papers, maps from 1894 on, and the census since 1930.
More historic than 94% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Springfield Township is more historic than 94% of U.S. towns, #129 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. All 2 inputs are above most U.S. towns; its National Register listings ranks highest and its share of homes from before 1940 lowest.
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 Springfield Township’s 320 sits above most of its state (93% of Pennsylvania towns have fewer) while its 166 historic buildings outnumber those of 92% of U.S. towns.
Founding year: our sources. 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 →
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Four other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Springfield Township’s history is told.
From Wikipedia’s history of Springfield Township.
The Jacob Funk House and Barn, John Eakin Farm, Knecht's Mill Covered Bridge, Springhouse Farm, and Springtown Historic District are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was also the location of the formerly listed Haupt's Mill Covered Bridge, destroyed by a fire in 1985.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
In the archive1940 Census Enumeration District Descriptions - Pennsylvania - Bucks County - ED 9-75A, E…
In the archive1940 Census Enumeration District Maps - Pennsylvania - Bucks County - Springfield - ED 9-…
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
In the archive"Andorra," William Warner Harper house, Wyndmoor
In the archiveSIDE VIEW SHOWING DATE STONE, DOOR HOODS, VENTILATION SLITS, ETC. - W. A. Finady Barn (18…4 decades in the archive, from the 1850s to the 1930s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
2025Trinity UCC, Springfield Township, Bucks County, PA, …
2025Springfield Township, Bucks County, PA municipal buil…
2025Former church at Hottle Road and State Road, Springfi…
2014Bucks county - Springfield Township
2012Walking Purchase Marker (back) Gallows Hill Rd
2012Gallows Hill Marker Walking Purchase
2011SPRINGHOUSE FARMEvery edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Springfield 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 Springfield Township.
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Springfield Township’s page.
Retake this view · +15Between 2,214 and 5,177 people in every census since 1930.
10 censuses, 1930–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Springfield Township’s Wikipedia page.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Springfield Township is more historic than 94% of U.S. towns, #129 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.
5 listings: 2 buildings, 2 historic districts, the John Eakin Farm and the Springtown Historic District, with 158 contributing buildings, and 1 structure. 166 historic buildings in all.
21% of Springfield Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±8.1 points), against a typical 18% for a Pennsylvania town; the median home was built in 1967.
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).
From Wikimedia Commons (10), the Library of Congress (1), Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (5), Wikipedia, 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.
