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Indiana County, Pennsylvania
Indiana County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Indiana
Year Organized: 1803
Square Miles: 830 |
Court House: 825 Philadelphia Street, 2nd Floor
County Courthouse
Indiana, PA 15701-3907
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
Probably named for the Territory of Indiana.
Demographics:
County QuickFacts:
Census Bureau Quick Facts
History
Created on March 30, 1803 from parts
of Westmoreland and Lycoming Counties and probably named for the Territory of
Indiana. It was attached to Westmoreland County until 1806. Indiana, the county
seat, was laid out in 1805 and incorporated as a borough on March 11, 1816.
The southern region was acquired from Indians at the Treaty of Fort Stanwix in
1768 (the "New Purchase"), the northern region by the Treaty of Fort Stanwix of
1784 (the "Last Purchase"). First permanent settlement was about 1765.
Blairsville arose in 1818 and was a turnpike and canal center. The Pennsylvania
Railroad arrived in 1851. Salt production was the first industry. Iron furnaces
were unsuccessful. Timber cutting flourished from the 1840s to about 1890 when
the trees were depleted. A coal mining boom began in 1900 and dominated the
economy until 1924, boosting the population to nearly 80,000. Coal mining
revived in the 1970s; Indiana is the state's fifth highest bituminous producer,
three-quarters of which is subsurface mined. Dairy farming and Christmas tree
sales buttress the economy today; 31 percent of the land is farmed. The
legendary Cherry Tree Joe McCreery and the actor Jimmy Stewart are cherished
local myths. Governor John S. Fisher, a Republican, was a county native.
Neighboring Counties:
Cities and Towns:
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- Armagh |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Banks |
township |
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- Black Lick |
township |
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- Blairsville |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Brush Valley |
township |
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- Buffington |
township |
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- Burrell |
township |
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- Canoe |
township |
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- Center |
township |
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- Cherry Tree |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Cherryhill |
township |
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- Clymer |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Creekside |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- East Mahoning |
township |
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- East Wheatfield |
township |
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- Ernest |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Glen Campbell |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Grant |
township |
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- Green |
township |
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- Homer City |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Indiana
(County Seat) |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Marion Center |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- McIntyre |
township |
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- North Mahoning |
township |
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- Pine |
township |
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- Plumville |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Rayne |
township |
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- Robinson |
township |
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- Saltsburg |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Shelocta |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Smicksburg |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- South Mahoning |
township |
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- West Lebanon |
township |
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- West Mahoning |
township |
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- West Wheatfield |
township |
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- Young |
township |
County Resources:
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County Resource Guide
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The history of our nation can be seen as a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names we've given our counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic
features of our 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." |
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