More historic than 38% of U.S. towns · #874 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. What drives it
Most of Warrington Township was built recently: 4% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1992. Below: 3 old photos and papers, maps from 1942 on, and the census since 1930.
From Warrington Township’s archive · credits on each photo
Quick answers
How Warrington Township began
When was Warrington Township founded?
1839
The Warrington Township post office opened in 1839, the earliest record of the town by name. Three smaller post offices, Neshaming (1855), Neshaminy (1864) and Eureka (1871), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
First census: 1,139 in 19302020 census: 25,639187 years
How historic is Warrington Township?
C+
More historic than 38% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
Founding year: the first Warrington Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓
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 38% of U.S. towns, #874 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. Its age holds the grade up; its National Register listings pull it down.
C+
HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Warrington 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 Warrington Township’s 0.0 sits below most of its state (25% of Pennsylvania towns have fewer) while its 0 listings outnumber those of 23% of U.S. towns.
How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from C− to B−. The pre-1940 share (±1.5 points) is firm at this size. The founding year is the first post office, not a stated founding date.
Founding year: the first post office (other dates in Quick answers). 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.
Warrington Township was founded in October 1734, and is named after the town of Warrington in Cheshire, England or, possibly, after the hamlet of Warrington in Buckinghamshire, England. The early township consisted of four villages: Warrington, Neshaminy, Tradesville, and Pleasantville. Warrington was located at the intersection of Bristol Road and the Doylestown-Willow Grove Turnpike, now known as Easton Road (Pennsylvania Route 611).
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.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Warrington Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1942Norristown sheet · 1:125,000
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Warrington Township.
Then & now
Stand where they stood
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
Retake this view1940 Census Enumeration District Descriptions - Pennsylvania - Bucks County - ED 9-86, ED 9-87, ED 9-88, ED 9-89, ED 9-…, 1850
Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Warrington Township’s page.
The Warrington Township post office opened in 1839, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
How does Warrington Township rank for history?
Warrington Township is more historic than 38% of U.S. towns, #874 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.
How old are the homes in Warrington Township?
4% of Warrington Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±1.5 points), against a typical 18% for a Pennsylvania town; the median home was built in 1992.
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 (10), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, 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.
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