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Pike County is a county located in the state of Pennsylvania. As of 2000, the population is 46,302. Its county seat is Milford6. Pike County is considered the most western edge of the Greater New York area surrounding New York City. Pike County is the fastest growing county in the state of Pennsylvania. Seal on envelope A seal is an impression printed on, embossed upon, or affixed to a document (or any other object) in order to authenticate it, in lieu of or in addition to a signature. ...
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Milford is a borough located in Pike County, Pennsylvania. ...
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The Twenty-second United States Census, conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States on April 1, 2000, to be 281,421,906, an increase of 13. ...
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Official language(s) None Capital Harrisburg Largest city Philadelphia Area - Total - Width - Length - % water - Latitude - Longitude Ranked 33rd 119,283 km² 255 km 455 km 2. ...
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A county seat is an administrative center for a county. ...
Milford is a borough located in Pike County, Pennsylvania. ...
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Official language(s) None Capital Harrisburg Largest city Philadelphia Area - Total - Width - Length - % water - Latitude - Longitude Ranked 33rd 119,283 km² 255 km 455 km 2. ...
History
Pike County, created in 1814 from part of Wayne County, Pennsylvania, was named for General Zebulon Pike. Milford, Pennsylvania, the county seat, was incorporated in 1874 and named for Milford Haven of Wales. 1814 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...
Wayne County is a county located in the state of Pennsylvania. ...
Official language(s) None Capital Harrisburg Largest city Philadelphia Area - Total - Width - Length - % water - Latitude - Longitude Ranked 33rd 119,283 km² 255 km 455 km 2. ...
Zebulon Montgomery Pike (January 5, 1779âApril 27, 1813) was an American soldier and explorer for whom Pikes Peak in Colorado is named. ...
Milford is a borough located in Pike County, Pennsylvania. ...
Milford Haven (Welsh: Aberdaugleddau meaning Mouth of the Two Cleddaus) is a town in Pembrokeshire, Wales. ...
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The first inhabitants were the Leni Lenape, later known as the Delaware Indians. The first European to visit to the region was Captain Arent Schuyler in 1694, sent by Governor Benjamin Fletcher of the colony of New York to determine whether the French were trying to enlist the Indians against the English. In 1696, governor Fletcher authorized a number of citizens of Ulster County to buy land from the Indians near New York. Descendants of those settlers became the first Europeans to settle in Pike County. The Lenape or Lenni-Lenape (later named Delaware Indians by Europeans) were, in the 1600s, loosely organized bands of Native American people practicing small-scale agriculture to augment a largely mobile hunter-gatherer society in the region around the Delaware River, the lower Hudson River, and western Long Island Sound. ...
The Lenape or Lenni-Lenape (later named Delaware Indians by Europeans) were, in the 1600s, loosely organized bands of Native American people practicing small-scale agriculture to augment a largely mobile hunter-gatherer society in the region around the Delaware River, the lower Hudson River, and western Long Island Sound. ...
Events February 6 - The colony Quilombo dos Palmares is destroyed. ...
Benjamin Fletcher (1640-1703) was colonial governor of New York from 1692 to 1697. ...
Official language(s) None, English de facto Capital Albany Largest city New York City Area - Total - Width - Length - % water - Latitude - Longitude Ranked 27th 141,205 km² 455 km 530 km 13. ...
The year 1696 had the earliest equinoxes and solstices for 400 years in the Gregorian calendar, because this year is a leap year and the Gregorian calendar would have behaved like the Julian calendar since March 1500 had it have been in use that long. ...
Ulster County is a county located in the state of New York, USA. It sits in the states beautiful Mid-Hudson Region of the Hudson Valley. ...
Early settlers included Nicholas Depui in 1725, Thomas Quick, who settled on the site of Milford in 1733, and Andrew Dingman in 1735, at what would become Dingmans Ferry. Settlers had good relations with the Indians at first; but as more settlers moved into the area, land disputes developed. The famous Walking Purchase of 1737 took in more than half of the present day Pike County and led to violence. Events February 8 - Catherine I became empress of Russia February 20 - The first reported case of white men scalping Native Americans takes place in New Hampshire colony. ...
Events February 12 - British colonist James Oglethorpe founds Savannah, Georgia. ...
Dingmans Ferry is an unincorporated town, in Dingman Township, Pike County, Pennsylvania on the Delaware River in the in Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area. ...
The Walking Purchase is the name given to an agreement in 1737 between the Penn family, the proprietors of Pennsylvania and the Lenape-Delaware tribe of Native American Indians. ...
Events 12 February â The San Carlo, the oldest working opera house in Europe, is inaugurated. ...
In the early 1800s, coal was discovered nearby in the area of present-day Carbondale, but an economical means of transporting the coal to New York was needed. A combination of a gravity railroad from Carbondale to Honesdale, and canal from Honesdale to New York was proposed. In 1823 the state of New York approved the building of the Delaware and Hudson Canal, a 108-mile (174 km) waterway between Honesdale and the Hudson River terminus near present day Kingston, New York. Work on the canal began in 1825 and was completed in 1828. The canal system proved profitable except where the barges crossed the Delaware. John Roebling proposed running the canal right over the river on an innovative suspension bridge/aqueduct, built in 1848; the suspension design called for only three piers (instead of the normal five), which allowed more room for ice floes and timber rafts to pass underneath. Three other suspension aqueducts were built for the canal. Events and Trends Beginning of the Napoleonic Wars (1803 - 1815). ...
Coal is a fossil fuel extracted from the ground by underground mining or open-pit mining (strip mining). ...
Carbondale is a city located in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania. ...
Official language(s) None, English de facto Capital Albany Largest city New York City Area - Total - Width - Length - % water - Latitude - Longitude Ranked 27th 141,205 km² 455 km 530 km 13. ...
Honesdale is located in an area known as the lake region of the Poconos. The surrounding area provides many recreational opportunities including: boating, fishing, hiking, hunting, skiing, biking, and rafting. ...
The Canal du Midi in Toulouse, France. ...
1823 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...
1886 map The Delaware and Hudson Railway (D&H) (AAR reporting mark DH) was a Class I railroad which operated in the northeastern United States. ...
View of the Hudson in the 1880s showing Jersey City The Hudson River, called Muh-he-kun-ne-tuk in Mahican, is a river running mainly through New York State but partly forming the boundary between the states of New York and New Jersey. ...
Kingston is a city located in Ulster County, New York, United States. ...
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1828 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...
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The canal and aqueduct carried coal boats over the Delaware for the next fifty-one years. Then new New York and Erie Railroad proved cheaper and had the advantage of running in the winter when the canal froze over. By 1898 the canal was abandoned. Roebling's Delaware Aqueduct, possibly the oldest suspension bridge in America, is a National Historic Landmark. Erie Railroad Categories: Stub | Erie Railroad ...
1898 (MDCCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ...
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In 1926, the Pennsylvania Power and Light Company built a dam on Wallenpaupack creek at Wilsonville for an electric generating plant. Construction of the dam required a crew of 2,700 men and took two years to complete at a cost of $1,026,000. Nearly a hundred landowners were bought out and farms, barns, and homes were razed or moved along with 17 miles (27 km) of roads and telephone lines and a cemetery. 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ...
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Pike County had the fastest population growth of any Pennsylvania county between 1990 and 2000. Between 1990 and 2000, the county grew by 65.2%, and between 2000 and 2004, it grew 16.9%. Local leaders attribute the trend to the relatively low state and county taxes, affordable housing, and the ease of commute to New York City's northern suburbs via Interstate 80 and Interstate 84. INTERSTATE JUNCTIONS JUNCTION EXIT # US-101 CA 1 I-5 CA 86 I-15 UT 120 UT 124 I-84 UT 168 I-25 WY 359 I-76 NE 102 I-29 IA 1A IA 4 I-35 IA 123 IA 137 I-74 IA 298 I-88 IL 4B...
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The current elected commisoners for Pike County, as of 2004, are Chairman Harry Forbes (R), Vice-Chairman Richard Caridi (R), and Commissioner Ray Wagner (D). Caridi, former Warden of the county Jail, is the only newcomer to the Commission.
Geography According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 1,468 km² (567 mi²). 1,416 km² (547 mi²) of it is land and 51 km² (20 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 3.50% water. The United States Census Bureau (officially Bureau of the Census) is a part of the United States Department of Commerce. ...
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The terrain rises rapidly from the river valley in the east to the rolling foothills of the Poconos in the west. The highest point is one of two unnamed hills in Greene Township that top out at approximately 2,110 feet (643 m) above sea level. The lowest elevation is approximately 340 feet (103.6 m), at the confluence of the Bushkill and the Delaware. The Poconos, or the Pocono Mountains region, is a mountainous region of about 2,400 square miles (6,200 km²) located in northeastern Pennsylvania. ...
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Demographics As of the census2 of 2000, there are 46,302 people, 17,433 households, and 13,022 families residing in the county. The population density is 33/km² (85/mi²). There are 34,681 housing units at an average density of 24/km² (63/mi²). The racial makeup of the county is 93.10% White, 3.27% Black or African American, 0.24% Native American, 0.62% Asian, 0.01% Pacific Islander, 1.30% from other races, and 1.47% from two or more races. 5.00% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. A census is the process of obtaining information about every member of a population (not necessarily a human population). ...
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The United States Census Bureau uses the federal governments definitions of race when performing a census. ...
The United States Census Bureau uses the federal governments definitions of race when performing a census. ...
The United States Census Bureau uses the federal governments definitions of race when performing a census. ...
The United States Census Bureau uses the federal governments definitions of race when performing a census. ...
The United States Census Bureau uses the federal governments definitions of race when performing a census. ...
The United States Census Bureau uses the federal governments definitions of race when performing a census. ...
The United States Census Bureau uses the federal governments definitions of race when performing a census. ...
The United States Census Bureau uses the federal governments definitions of race when performing a census. ...
There are 17,433 households out of which 34.40% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 63.50% are married couples living together, 7.60% have a female householder with no husband present, and 25.30% are non-families. 20.70% of all households are made up of individuals and 8.40% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.63 and the average family size is 3.06. The examples and perspective in this article may not represent a worldwide view. ...
In the county, the population is spread out with 26.70% under the age of 18, 5.30% from 18 to 24, 27.70% from 25 to 44, 25.10% from 45 to 64, and 15.20% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 40 years. For every 100 females there are 99.30 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 97.30 males.
Municipalities Boroughs Matamoras is a borough located in Pike County, Pennsylvania. ...
Milford is a borough located in Pike County, Pennsylvania. ...
Townships Blooming Grove Township is a township located in Pike County, Pennsylvania. ...
Delaware Township is a township located in Pike County, Pennsylvania. ...
Dingman Township is a township located in Pike County, Pennsylvania. ...
Greene Township is a township located in Pike County, Pennsylvania. ...
Lackawaxen Township is a township located in Pike County, Pennsylvania. ...
Lehman Township is a township located in Pike County, Pennsylvania. ...
Milford Township is a township located in Pike County, Pennsylvania. ...
Palmyra Township is a township located in Pike County, Pennsylvania. ...
Porter Township is a township located in Pike County, Pennsylvania. ...
Shohola Township is a township located in Pike County, Pennsylvania. ...
Westfall Township is a township located in Pike County, Pennsylvania. ...
Education Public School Districts - Delaware Valley School District
External links - NPS-- Roebling's Delaware Aqueduct
- Alliance to Keep Pike County Green
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Official language(s) None Capital Harrisburg Largest city Philadelphia Area - Total - Width - Length - % water - Latitude - Longitude Ranked 33rd 119,283 km² 255 km 455 km 2. ...
A county seat is an administrative center for a county. ...
Milford is a borough located in Pike County, Pennsylvania. ...
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Matamoras is a borough located in Pike County, Pennsylvania. ...
Milford is a borough located in Pike County, Pennsylvania. ...
A civil township is a widely-used unit of local government in the United States, subordinate to a county. ...
Blooming Grove Township is a township located in Pike County, Pennsylvania. ...
Delaware Township is a township located in Pike County, Pennsylvania. ...
Dingman Township is a township located in Pike County, Pennsylvania. ...
Greene Township is a township located in Pike County, Pennsylvania. ...
Lackawaxen Township is a township located in Pike County, Pennsylvania. ...
Lehman Township is a township located in Pike County, Pennsylvania. ...
Milford Township is a township located in Pike County, Pennsylvania. ...
Palmyra Township is a township located in Pike County, Pennsylvania. ...
Porter Township is a township located in Pike County, Pennsylvania. ...
Shohola Township is a township located in Pike County, Pennsylvania. ...
Westfall Township is a township located in Pike County, Pennsylvania. ...
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