Cumberland County Towns and Townships

 

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Cumberland County Towns and Townships

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Most of the information on Cumberland County Boroughs and Townships is limited to present day Cumberland County. In the early days, 1750-1820, other townships were included in Cumberland. A history of townships in Cumberland is listed below.

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Boroughs and Townships of Cumberland County Townships 1-6 were formed from the original East Pennsborough Twp; 7-9 from the original Middleton Twp; 10-15 from the original West Pennsborough Twp; 16-22 from the original Hopewell Twp.
Borough	Year Established	Parent Township	Notes
Camp Hill	1885	East Pennsborough Lower Allen Hampden
Carlisle	1783	Middleton	Laid out, 1751
Mechanicsburg	1828	Silver Spring Allen	Founded early 1800's
Mt Holly Springs	1873	South Middleton
Lemoyne	1905	Lower Allen
Newburg	1861	Hopewell
New Cumberland	1831	Allen
Newville	1817	Newton	Laid out, 1790
Shippensburg	1819	Shippensburg	Settled 1733
Shiremanstown	1874	Lower Allen
West Fairview	1910	East Pennsborough	Laid out, 1815 Remerged with East Pennsborough Twp, 1 Jan 1998.
Wormleysburg	1908	East Pennsborough	Laid out, 1815

If the names of the town you are searching did not appear in the above list you might check this list of unincorporated areas. from Brigdens'1858 Atlas.

Township	Year Established	Parent Township	Year Divided
* Current Cumberland Townships: Numbers correspond to location on map
Hopewell*16	1735	Orig Twp; Part of Lancaster County
Allen	1766	East Pennsborough	1850
Newton	1767	Hopewell	1929
North Newton*20	1929	Newton
South Newton*19	1929	Newton
Shippensburg*17	1783	Hopewell
Southampton*18	1783	Hopewell
Mifflin	1797	Newton [Data corrected-7/04: was Hopewell]	1892
Lower Mifflin*22	1892	Mifflin
Upper Mifflin*21	1892	Mifflin
Pennsborough	1735	Part of Lancaster County	1745
West Pennsborough*10	1745	Orig Twp Pennsborough; Part of Lancaster County
Dickinson*11	1785	West Pennsborough
Penn*12	1860	Dickinson
Cooke*13	1872	Penn
Frankford	1795	West Pennsborough	1929
Lower Frankford*15	1929	Frankford
Upper Frankford*14	1929	Frankford
Middleton	1750	Orig Twp West Pennsborough	1810
South Middleton*7	1810	Middleton
North Middleton*8 Beer's 1872 Atlas	1810 MAP 380KB	Middleton
Middlesex*9	1859	North Middleton
East Pennsborough*1	1745	Orig Twp Pennsborough; Part of Lancaster County
Hamden*2	1845	East Pennsborough
Allen	1765	East Pennsborough	1850
Lower Allen*3	1850	Allen
Upper Allen*4	1850	Allen
Silver Spring*5	1787	East Pennsborough
Monroe*6	1825	Allen

Are you looking for a location that you can not find on these lists? Then try the Geographic Names Information System - Online Data Base Query Form. Do not use any commas or apostrophes in your query. Just click here.

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History of Earlier Cumberland Townships

NAME	CREATED	FIRST APPEARANCE	DATE SEPARATED
Hopewell	1735	1736	Still exists; part of original area went to Franklin in 1784.
Antrim	1741	1741	Still exists; created from Hopewell. Now in Franklin.
Lurgan	1743?	1751	1760/61 Still exists; part of Franklin Co. 1784.
Peters	Before 1751; Probably in the late 1740's.	1751	Still exists; Part of Franklin Co. 1784.
Guilford	Same as Peters	1751	1781 Part of Franklin Co. 1784.
Hamilton	1752	1752	Part of Franklin Co. 1784.
Fannett	1754	1762	Part of Franklin Co. 1784.
Fermanagh	1754	1767	Part of Mifflin Co. 1789.
Lack	1754	1767	Part of Mifflin Co. 1789.
Tyrone	1754	1762	1763 Part of Perry Co. 1820.
Letterkenny	1761 From Lurgan	1762	Part of Franklin Co. 1784.
Toboyne	1763 From Tyrone	1763 as Upper Tyrone	Part of Perry Co. 1820.
Rye	1766 From Tyrone	1767	Part of Perry Co. 1820.
Dublin	1767	1768	Part of Bedford Co. 1771.
Air	1754	1762	Part of Bedford Co. 1771.
Greenwood	1767	1768	A portion became part of Mifflin Co. in 1789; remainder part of Perry Co. in 1820.
Penn('s)	1767	1768	Now in Snyder; was assigned to Northumberland Co. in 1772.
Derry	1767	1768	Part of Mifflin Co. in 1789.
Cumberland	1767	1768	Part of Bedford Co. in 1771.
Bedford	1767	1768	Part of Bedford Co. in 1771.
Coleraine	1767	1768	Part of Bedford Co. in 1771.
Barree	1767	1768	Disputed between Bedford and Cumberland 1771-79; assigned to Bedford Co. in 1779.
Milford	1768 From Lack	1769	Part of Mifflin Co. in 1789.
Armagh	1770 From Derry	1771	Part of Mifflin Co. in 1789.
Washington	1779 From Antrim	1779	Part of Franklin Co. in 1784.
Montgomery	1781 From Peters	1781	Part of Franklin Co. in 1784.
Shippensburg Twp	1783 From Hopewell	1783	1819
Southampton	1783 From Hopewell and Lurgan	1793	1784 1/2 to Franklin Co. and 1/2 left in Cumberland Co.
Wayne	1782 From Derry	1783	Part of Mifflin Co. in 1789.
Juniata	1793 From Rye	1793	Part of Perry Co. in 1820.
Buffalo	1799 From Greenwood	1808	Part of Perry Co. in 1820.
Saville	1817 From Tyrone	1820	Part of Perry Co. in 1820.

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