Tioga dates its founding to 1798 (Wikidata). The census first counted it in 1860.
First census: 450 in 18602020 census: 606228 years
How did Tioga get its name?
The name "Tioga" is borrowed from Native American tribes who lived in the area at the time of the arrival of European colonists; it means "at the forks".
On July 5, 2022, Officer Timothy Loehmann was sworn in as Tioga's only police officer. In 2014, Loehmann, while employed as a police officer in Cleveland, had shot and killed
12-year-old Tamir Rice who at the time was holding a pellet gun. Loehmann was never charged with a crime, but the incident caused protests. His hiring by Tioga's borough council caused a public backlash. A week later the resignations of Loehmann, the borough council president, another council member, the borough attorney, and the borough's code enforcement officer were accepted by the borough council. According to Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro, the borough broke the law by failing to perform a proper background check before hiring Loehmann.
Passages that mention Tioga, cut from the printed page as they were published.
An outline history of Tioga and Bradford counties in Pennsylvania, Chemung, Steuben, Tioga, Tompkins and Schuyler in New York1885 · page 220Read the page →
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town of Westville, taken from the town of Berkshire was created, and by an act of the legislature, session 47, chapter 109, passed March 24, 1824, the name Westville was changed to Newark, and in 1862, again changed to Newark Valley. The town "is situated in the central eastern portion of Tioga county, adjoining the Broome county line. It is bounded on the north by the town of Berkshire, in Tioga county, on the east by Broome county, on the south by Broome county, and the town of Owego, in Tioga county, on the west by the town of Candor, in Tioga county. The east branch of
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An outline history of Tioga and Bradford counties in Pennsylvania, Chemung, Steuben, Tioga, Tompkins and Schuyler in New York1885 · page 20Read the page →
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Covington township was formed from the township of Tioga, and originally contained the territory now chiefly composed of the township of Bloss and Blossburg Borough, Sullivan and Mainesburg Borough, Ward and the borough of Fall Brook, Union, Liberty and Morris. The earliest settler in the township was Aaron Bloss, who located in the township in the year 1801, and subsequently removed and founded Blossburg, five miles further up the Tioga river in the year 1806. The next early settlers were David Clemmons Hovey, Washburne, Mallory, Sackett, Levi Prentiss, John Patten, Tilley
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A history of old Tioga Point and early Athens, Pennsylvania1908 · page 295Read the page →
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ering had reported to the Council that multitudes of old settlers had become half-share men, and said : “At this moment great numbers are in actual possession from Tunkhannock to Tioga — I therefore continue of the opinion, That in order to establish the peace of the county of Luzerne, it is necessary to fix a military post at Tioga, — this appears to be sound policy as well as necessity: * * * I beg leave to add another reason for fixing a post at Tioga. There are great numbers of orderly people who would come and settle in the country.” While Congress agreed to
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Timeline
Tioga, 1798 to 1923
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Fire insurance maps drew every building, what it was made of and what it was used for, so insurers could price the risk of fire. Pick a year, then a sheet.
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), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System, Sanborn fire insurance maps (Library of Congress) and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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