Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Most of Trooper was built recently: 6% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1968. Below: old-book passages.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Trooper’s history is told.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Trooper yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Trooper is a census-designated place (CDP) in Lower Providence Township, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 5,744 at the 2010 census.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 5,744 to 5,481 (-5%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Trooper, cut from the printed page as they were published.
This modern and beautiful church was built in 1876, and is located at Jeffersonville. It takes the place of the former Presbyterian Church, founded about 1841, and located on the Ridge turnpike, near the Trooper village. The congregation were originally of the
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Nobody well known was born in Trooper itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
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). How TownRatings grades history →
From Wikimedia Commons (2) 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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