Cogan House Township, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania
township in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania
Cogan House Township is a township in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 930 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Williamsport, Pennsylvania Metropolitan Statistical Area.
History
Cogan House Township was formed from parts of Jackson and Mifflin townships on December 6, 1843.
The source of Larrys Creek is in Cogan House Township, just south of the hamlet of Steam Valley. It flows west-southwest through the village of Cogan House, and then under the Cogan House Covered Bridge. The bridge is also known as the "Buckhorn Covered Bridge" (for a nearby mountain and vanished village) or the "Larrys Creek Covered Bridge" (for the creek it crosses). A petition from the citizens of Cogan House Township for a bridge to be built was filed on September 4, 1876. The 90-foot-long (27 m) Burr arch truss bridge was built in 1877 and rehabilitated in 1998, and is on the National Register of Historic Places. Larrys Creek was vitally important to the economic development of Cogan House Township.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Cogan House Township, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania” is township in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Cogan, House and Township, not as a finished interpretation.
Why this record matters
The phrase “township in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.
Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5141081. Authority coordinates are 41.416, -77.189. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2020, 1843, 1876 and 1877.
Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
How to read it
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Questions for further research
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This entry incorporates text from “Cogan House Township, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.