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Tuscarora Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania

township in Bradford County, Pennsylvania

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ1895153 ↗
Source-derived summary

Tuscarora Township is a township in Bradford County, Pennsylvania and is part of Northeastern Pennsylvania. Its population was 1,131 at the 2010 census.

Geography

Tuscarora Township is located in the south-eastern corner of Bradford County. It is bordered by Stevens Township to the north, Wyalusing Township to the west, and Wilmot Township to the southwest, across the Susquehanna River. Braintrim Township and the borough of Laceyville in Wyoming County are to the south, and Auburn and Rush townships in Susquehanna County are to the east. Tuscarora Township includes the unincorporated communities of Silvara, Spring Hill and Edinger Hill (formerly South Spring Hill).

U.S. Route 6 travels through the southwestern part of the township on high ground above the Susquehanna River.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 29.5 square miles (76.5 km2), of which 29.0 square miles (75.2 km2) is land and 0.50 square miles (1.3 km2), or 1.76%, is water.

Demographic

As of the census of 2000, there were 1,072 people, 401 households, and 305 families residing in the township. The population density was 36.6 inhabitants per square mile (14.1/km2).

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Tuscarora Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania” as township in Bradford County, Pennsylvania. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2010, 2000—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Tuscarora, Township and Bradford can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as township in Bradford County, Pennsylvania. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1895153. Authority coordinates are 41.708, -76.124. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2010 and 2000.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Tuscarora Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Tuscarora Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania primary sources, Tuscarora Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania archive and Tuscarora research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Tuscarora Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Tuscarora Township, Bradford 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.