The story
Read it all →How Warrington Township came to be
From Wikipedia’s history of Warrington Township.
The Warrington Meetinghouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
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History · Warrington Township
11% of Warrington Township’s homes were built before 1940
More historic than 54% of U.S. towns · #700 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. What drives it
Its Register listing is the Warrington Meetinghouse. Below: maps from 1906 on and the census since 1930.
1on the National Register
11%homes built before 1940
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About Warrington Township’s history
How historic is Warrington Township?
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What drives the grade ↓More historic than 54% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
History grade
What drives Warrington Township’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Warrington Township is more historic than 54% of U.S. towns, #700 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. Its National Register listings hold the grade up; its share of homes from before 1940 pulls it down.
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HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Warrington Township’s overall grade.
Founding eraWithout a firm founding date for Warrington Township, this grade rests on its old homes and Register listings–Homes built before 194010.8% of homes (±4.8) · typical PA town 17.7% · U.S. 8.4%B−National Register1 listing, 2.2 per 10,000 residents · typical PA town 2.1 · U.S. 2.4B−
All U.S. towns we grade (21,289)Ahead of 54%
NewerOlder
Pennsylvania towns of 2,500+ (1,035)Ahead of 32%
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 Warrington Township’s 2.2 sits near the middle of its state (58% 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 (±4.8 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 Warrington Township’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Lost villages4 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Warrington Township, and 8 old place names are still on the map.A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Warrington Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.On the map since 19066 editions of the USGS map, 1906 to 1999. Watch Warrington Township change.
★ What stands out · Places that used to be
Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds
Four other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.
Rossville
Mount Top
Alpine
Fortney
Roler
18101920today
Hamlets and corners on the map
AlpineBenedictsDetters MillFortneyMaytownMount AiryMount TopRoseville
Gone or out of use
Fortney P ObuildingQuaker MeetinghousechurchSalem Churchchurch
1cemetery inside Warrington Township
Salem Evangelical
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Help out
Start Warrington Township’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Warrington 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.On the map
Warrington Township on the map, 1906 to 1999
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Warrington Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1906New Cumberland sheet · 1:62,500U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Warrington Township.
From the old history books
What they wrote about Warrington Township in 1886
Passages that mention Warrington Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
History of York County, Pennsylvania1886 · page 147Read the page →
Read the text
engaged in saw-milling; in the latter year he opened a small store in connection with the saw-mill, etc., near Mount Pleasant; then in the spring of 1880 moved to Mount Airy, Warrington Township, where he spared no means but made every effort to build up and establish a permanent trade, and also established the postolBce at that place; remained about three years, but by that great effort
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.
Timeline
Warrington Township, 1817 to 1922
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
- 19th century
- 1817Post officeThe Rossville post office opens
- 1861Post officeThe Mount Top post office opens
- 1870Post officeThe Alpine post office opens
- 20th century
- 1906
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey - 1911Post officeThe Alpine post office closes
- 1922Post officeThe Mount Top post office closes
By decade
Warrington Township, decade by decade
2015
2015
2013
2013
2009On the National Register
1 historic place in Warrington Township
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
1
each building in a district counts
first listed
1975
Warrington Meetinghouse
Buildings
Architectural styles listings
Quaker Style1
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
People over time
Warrington Township, census by census
Grew from 1,349 people in 1930 to 4,548 in 2020, 3 times over.
10 censuses, 1930–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Warrington Township’s Wikipedia page.
Famous people
See all →Famous people close to Warrington Township
Nobody well known was born in Warrington Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Stories next door
History across the town line
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Questions about Warrington Township’s history
How does Warrington Township rank for history?
Warrington Township is more historic than 54% of U.S. towns, #700 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 Warrington Township?
One place: the Warrington Meetinghouse (listed 1975).
How old are the homes in Warrington Township?
11% of Warrington Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±4.8 points), against a typical 18% for a Pennsylvania town; the median home was built in 1982.
Memory lane
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
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Sources
Where this page comes from
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 (5), the National Register of Historic Places (1), 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 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.