Borough · Huntingdon County

Mill Creek

4 stories on file, each with its sources. 0.3 square miles of land in the ridge and valley country of central Pennsylvania.

285

Population

2020 Census, P.L. 94-171

0.30 sq mi

Land area

2020 Census gazetteer

0.02 sq mi

Water

2020 Census gazetteer

643 ft

Elevation

Community reference point, checked against USGS

Borough

Type

GEOID 4206149552

Nearby

Straight-line miles between map centers, 2020 Census boundary file

The founding record

Mill Creek, a station on the Pennsylvania railroad six miles east of Huntingdon, was laid out in October, 1848, by James Simpson for David Zook & Company. It takes its name from the stream upon which it is situated. The first stores in this locality were opened at Wilson's Mills about 1828. Mill Creek was incorporated as a borough on December 13, 1905, with I. N. Foust as chief burgess. John W. Jordan, ed., History of the Juniata Valley and Its People (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing, 1913) · character 228,656 of the scanned text

Quoted from a work published before 1929 and therefore in the public domain in the United States. Spelling and punctuation are as printed, including nineteenth century spellings of place names. Scanned text carries optical character recognition errors; the character offset is given so the passage can be found and checked in the original.

4 stories

Stories from Mill Creek

Did you know? Sand for bottles, fruit jars and window glass was quarried out of a ridge near Mill Creek.

The Juniata Sand Company had a quarry in the bottom beds of the Oriskany sandstone, below Mill Creek village. A steam crusher and washer prepared 35 tons of sand a day for shipment to Pittsburgh, Wheeling and Bellaire. The sand was called second class and was used for bottles, fruit jars and certain grades of window glass.

The sand rock is 125 feet thick, but only the lowest 30 feet was being used, the purest and softest beds. A little stream breaking through the ridge supplied plenty of water for washing the sand and carrying it down a small flume to the railroad.

Checked and confirmed. CONFIRMED 2026-10-03 against the sources listed: every factual sentence was tied to a verbatim passage and a script confirmed each passage is in its source. Where sources disagreed on a number, the number was left out.

Sources

I. C. White, The Geology of Huntingdon County (Second Geological Survey of Pennsylvania, Report T3, 1885)

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Did you know? The world's largest operating steam locomotive crossed Huntingdon County this summer.

Union Pacific's Big Boy 4014 came through on Wednesday, July 8, on its east coast tour celebrating America250. The Huntingdon Daily News reported that it passed through Mount Union, Mapleton, Mill Creek and Huntingdon, where it stopped for about 10 minutes. From there it went on through Spruce Creek and then on to Tyrone. Hundreds of spectators lined the route.

Checked and confirmed. CONFIRMED 2026-10-03 against the sources listed: every factual sentence was tied to a verbatim passage and a script confirmed each passage is in its source. Where sources disagreed on a number, the number was left out. Information shared with us by readers is given as theirs, not as fact: Lynn Klingel.

Sources

Huntingdon Daily News, "Big Boy travels through Huntingdon County", July 9, 2026

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Mill Creek United Methodist Church, Mill Creek, Huntingdon County. The date stone reads MEC 1852.Smallbones, via Wikimedia Commons. Creative Commons Zero (CC0), a public domain dedication. CC0

Mill Creek borough's first photograph on this site is of its United Methodist church. The date stone reads MEC 1852, which the photographer takes to stand for Methodist Episcopal Church, and says so as a supposition rather than a fact. The steeple, he notes, is a fairly modern addition. Both of those hedges are his and both are kept here.

Sources

Photograph by the Wikimedia contributor Smallbones, 29 May 2016, released under Creative Commons Zero, a public domain dedication. Described by the photographer as "Mill Creek United Methodist Church in Mill Creek, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. Date stone reads 'MEC 1852' presumably for 'Methodist Episcopal Church'. The steeple is a fairly modern addition."

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From the newspaper the county was reading at the time, on Mill Creek borough. The Huntingdon Journal of 11 January 1871 carried this item in its column of local news. It is printed below exactly as the page reads, including the spelling of the day and the errors the scanner made: the paper's compositor set "traiu" for train and the scanner has read "debrie" for debris. Nothing has been rewritten, summarised or added to.

On Saturday last, owing to the breaking of axle, a traiu of stock freight cars was thrown from the track at Mill Creek and some eighteen cars de stroyed. Trains both east and west were delayed for several hours until the debrie was removed.Huntingdon Journal, 11 January 1871, p. 3 · character 0 of the scanned text

Sources

Huntingdon Journal, 11 January 1871, p. 3, local news column

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Where it sits

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