What drives Upper Milford Township’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Upper Milford Township is more historic than 62% of U.S. towns, #584 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. All 2 inputs are above most U.S. towns; its share of homes from before 1940 ranks highest and its National Register listings lowest.
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HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Upper Milford Township’s overall grade.
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 Upper Milford Township’s 1.2 sits near the middle of its state (54% of Pennsylvania towns have fewer) while its 1 listings outnumber those of 51% of U.S. towns.
How sure. Graded on two of the three inputs, so a change in either one moves the letter more than it would with three. The pre-1940 share is a Census survey estimate (±4.1 points).
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 →
What stands out about Upper Milford Township’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
10cemeteries and burying grounds inside Upper Milford Township
CalvaryLutheran Church of the Holy Spirit Memorial GardenOld Zionsville United Church of ChristSaint Peters Union ChurchSalem United Methodist ChurchUpper Milford Mennonite ChurchVera Cruz E C ChurchZions Evangelical Lutheran ChurchZionsville Bible FellowshipZionsville Reformed Church
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Upper Milford 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.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Upper Milford Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Upper Milford Township is a township in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, United States. The township's population was 7,292 at the 2010 census. Upper Milford Township is a rural area southwest of Allentown in the Lehigh Valley, which had a population of 861,899 and was the 68th-most populous metropolitan area in the U.S. as of the 2020 census.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 7,292 to 7,777 (+7%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Timeline
Upper Milford Township, 1849 to 1956
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Upper Milford Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1943East Greenville sheet · 1:31,680
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Upper Milford Township.
On the National Register
1 historic place in Upper Milford Township
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
Upper Milford Township is more historic than 62% of U.S. towns, #584 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.
What is on the National Register in Upper Milford Township?
One place: the Schubert-Graber Log-Post Shop (listed 2018).
How old are the homes in Upper Milford Township?
16% of Upper Milford Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±4.1 points), against a typical 18% for a Pennsylvania town; the median home was built in 1979.
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 Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (1), 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.
