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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.

Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania

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

County Seat: Huntingdon
Year Organized: 1787
Square Miles: 875

Court House:

223 Penn Street
County Courthouse
Huntingdon, PA 16652-1443

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Named it for the Countess of Huntingdon, England.

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

County History

Created on September 20, 1787, from part of Bedford County and named for its county seat, Huntingdon. Dr. William Smith, provost of the University of Pennsylvania, owned the land where the town was laid out in 1767 and named it for the Countess of Huntingdon, England. Huntingdon was incorporated as a borough on March 29, 1796.

Fort Shirley, the reinforced trading post of the colorful Indian trader George Croghan, was an important defense post in 1755–1756. Iron ore and limestone are abundant, so the manufacture of a superior charcoal-made iron was the foundation of the economy until surpassed by competitors after 1850. Charcoal production denuded the forests, and later the state bought those areas as preserves. Brick making and pottery were major industries until recent decades. Paper, silk, and hosiery industries once flourished. The damning of the Raystown Branch of the Juniata River created a tourist recreation industry. There is a significant dairy industry; 24 percent of the county is farmed. Republican Martin Brumbaugh was the president of Juniata College both before and after his term as governor.

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 889 square miles (2,303 km²), of which, 874 square miles (2,264 km²) of it is land and 15 square miles (39 km²) of it (1.68%) is water.

Neighboring Counties:

Centre County (north)
Mifflin County (east)
Juniata County (east)
Franklin County (southeast)
Fulton County (south)
Bedford County (southwest)
Blair County (west)

Cities and Towns:

- Alexandria	borough	Incorporated Area
- Barree	township
- Birmingham	borough	Incorporated Area
- Broad Top	borough
- Carbon	township
- Cass	township
- Cassville	borough	Incorporated Area
- Cherry Grove	township
- Coalmont	borough	Incorporated Area
- Cromwell	township
- Dudley	borough	Incorporated Area
- Henderson	township
- Huntingdon (County Seat)	borough	Incorporated Area
- Juniata	township
- Lack	township
- Logan	township
- Mapleton	borough	Incorporated Area
- Marklesburg	borough	Incorporated Area
- Mill Creek	borough	Incorporated Area
- Miller	township
- Mount Union	borough	Incorporated Area
- Orbisonia	borough	Incorporated Area
- Petersburg	borough	Incorporated Area
- Rockhill	borough
- Rockhill Furnace	borough	Incorporated Area
- Saltillo	borough	Incorporated Area
- Shade Gap	borough	Incorporated Area
- Shirley	township
- Shirleysburg	borough	Incorporated Area
- Spruce Creek	township
- Tell	township
- Three Springs	borough	Incorporated Area
- Todd	township
- Union	township
- Warriors Mark	township
- West	township

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."