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Pennsylvania Counties

There are sixty-seven counties of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the United States of America. The city of Philadelphia is coterminous with Philadelphia County, and governmental functions have been consolidated since 1854.

Armstrong County, Pennsylvania

Armstrong County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education

County Seat: Kittanning
Year Organized: 1800
Square Miles: 654

Court House:

450 East Market Street
County Courthouse
Kittanning, PA 16201-1461

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Named for John Armstrong (October 13, 1717 – March 9, 1795), an American civil engineer and soldier who served as a major general in the Revolutionary War. He was a delegate to the Continental Congress for Pennsylvania.

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

County History

Created on March 12, 1800, from parts of Allegheny, Westmoreland, and Lycoming Counties and was named for General John Armstrong. It was attached to Westmoreland County until 1805. Kittanning, the county seat was incorporated as a borough on April 2, 1821, and derived its name from a Delaware Indian village at the same place.

The area saw much fighting between settlers and Indians in the French and Indian War and Revolutionary War. John Armstrong's attack on the Indian village of Kittanning in 1756 proved that the Indians were not invincible. The territory was purchased from the Indians by the two Treaties of Fort Stanwix, 1768 (known as the New Purchase) and 1784 (known as the Last Purchase). The State's third ranked bituminous coal producing county, Armstrong also has produced glass, clay, brick, and quarried stone. Most of the coal mines are subsurface. A brief oil boom occurred after 1865, and natural gas was produced long afterwards. Steel production was once important, but declined by the 1930s. Armstrong's farming is strong in livestock and has a valuable mushroom crop. Thirty percent of the land is farmed.

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 664 square miles (1,721 km²), of which, 654 square miles (1,694 km²) of it is land and 11 square miles (27 km²) of it (1.58%) is water.

Neighboring Counties:

Clarion County (north)
Jefferson County (northeast)
Indiana County (east)
Westmoreland County (south)
Allegheny County (southwest)
Butler County (west)
Venango County(northwest)

Cities and Towns:

- Applewold	borough	Incorporated Area
- Atwood	borough	Incorporated Area
- Boggs	township
- Bradys Bend	township
- Burrell	township
- Cadogan	township
- Cowanshannock	township
- Dayton	borough	Incorporated Area
- East Franklin	township
- Elderton	borough	Incorporated Area
- Ford City	borough	Incorporated Area
- Ford Cliff	borough	Incorporated Area
- Freeport	borough	Incorporated Area
- Gilpin	township
- Hovey	township
- Kiskiminetas	township
- Kittanning (County Seat)	borough	Incorporated Area
- Leechburg	borough	Incorporated Area
- Manorville	borough	Incorporated Area
- North Apollo	borough	Incorporated Area
- North Buffalo	township
- Parker	city	Incorporated Area
- Parks	township
- Pine	township
- Plumcreek	township
- Rayburn	township
- Redbank	township
- Rural Valley	borough	Incorporated Area
- Shelocta	borough	Incorporated Area
- South Bend	township
- South Bethlehem	borough	Incorporated Area
- South Buffalo	township
- West Franklin	township
- West Kittanning	borough	Incorporated Area
- West Leechburg	borough	Incorporated Area
- Worthington	borough	Incorporated Area

County Resources:

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County Resources

The history of our nation was a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names given the counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic features of this country!"

But age, size and colorful names of our counties isn't the only reason to explore counties' role in American history, or the history of county government itself. In fact, the story of county government reflects the larger meanings of American history.

Today's counties are the most flexible, locally responsive and creative governments in the US. They are the most diverse, varying in size, population, geography, and governmental structure. In their politics and policies, they express a 1990's political slogan "Think globally, act locally."