Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Most of Valley Green was built recently: 2% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1981.
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 Valley Green’s history is told.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Valley Green yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Valley Green is a census-designated place (CDP) in York County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 3,429 at the 2010 census.
Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 3,429 in 2010, 3,412 in 2020.
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Nobody well known was born in Valley Green itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
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 →
