Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: maps from 1911 on and the census since 2000.
The Worth Township post office opened in 1849, the earliest record of the town by name. Three smaller post offices, Henderson (1827), Worth (1849) and Millbrook (1872), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
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 Worth Township’s history is told.
Three other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Worth Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Worth Township.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Worth Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Worth Township is a township in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 824 at the 2020 census, a decrease from 899 in 2010.
Its first post office opened in 1849. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 899 to 827 (-8%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Worth Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
One of the latest, but by no means one of the least important arrivals was that of Job Perrine, who entered the township in 1832, locating on the farm which he occupied for so many years. The Perrines had come to the county as early as 1800, and settled in Worth Township. In the year following Job’s advent, his three brothers, William, Lewis and Harrison, followed in his course, and likewise occupied land in the immediate vicinity. In a year or two later W. H. Perrine followed, while in 1847 O. P. Perrine located at what was called Yankeetown.
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.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyBetween 824 and 899 people in every census since 2000.
3 censuses, 2000–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Worth Township’s Wikipedia page.
Nobody well known was born in Worth Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The Worth Township post office opened in 1849, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
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 (6), 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.
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