The story
Read it all →How Yoe came to be
From Wikipedia’s history of Yoe.
The borough of Yoe was formed in 1893 from portions of southeastern York Township.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
B−History
History · Yoe
Yoe’s post office opened in 1889, and 37% of its homes were built before 1940
More historic than 52% of U.S. towns. What drives it
Below: maps from 1908 on and the census since 1900.
1889first post office
0on the National Register
37%homes built before 1940
Quick answers
How Yoe began
When was Yoe founded?
1889
The Yoe post office opened in 1889, the earliest record of the town by name.
First census: 525 in 19002020 census: 1,055137 years
How historic is Yoe?
B−
What drives the grade ↓More historic than 52% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
Founding year: the first Yoe post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓
History grade
What drives Yoe’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Yoe is more historic than 52% of U.S. towns. Its share of homes from before 1940 holds the grade up; its National Register listings pull it down.
B−
HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Yoe’s overall grade.
Founding era1889, from the first post office: founded 1850–1899, an older era than 37% of U.S. townsC+Homes built before 194037.0% of homes (±8.7) · typical PA town 17.7% · U.S. 8.4%ANational RegisterNo listings counted · typical PA town 2.1 per 10,000 · U.S. 2.4C−
All U.S. towns we grade (21,289)Ahead of 52%
NewerOlder
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 Yoe’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 is a Census survey estimate (±8.7 points). 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 Yoe’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
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Start Yoe’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Yoe’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
Yoe on the map, 1908 to 1990
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Yoe. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1908York 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 Yoe.
From the old history books
What they wrote about Yoe in 1907
Passages that mention Yoe, cut from the printed page as they were published.
History of York County Pennsylvania1907 · page 740Read the page →
Read the text
where he was actively engaged in business for the long period of forty years, at the expiration of which, in 1875, he became a resident of the present borough of Yoe. Here he operated a sawmill for a few years and then retired from active labor, continuing to reside in Yoe until his death, in 1896, and being buried in the cemetery of that borough. He was a man of
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
Yoe, 1889 to 1962
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
- 19th century
- 1889Post officeThe Yoe post office opens
- 20th century
- 1908
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey - 1962Post officeThe Yoe post office closes
By decade
Yoe, decade by decade
2026
2026
2026
2026
2026
2015People over time
Yoe, census by census
Grew from 525 people in 1900 to 1,055 in 2020.
13 censuses, 1900–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Yoe’s Wikipedia page.
Famous people
See all →Famous people close to Yoe
Nobody well known was born in Yoe itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Places that used to be
Lost post offices
Yoe had its own post office from 1889 to 1962.
Yoe
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US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Questions about Yoe’s history
What year was Yoe founded?
The Yoe post office opened in 1889, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
How does Yoe rank for history?
Yoe is more historic than 52% of U.S. towns. 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 Yoe?
37% of Yoe’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±8.7 points), against a typical 18% for a Pennsylvania town; the median home was built in 1972.
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 (6), 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.