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Jefferson County, Pennsylvania
Jefferson County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Brookville
Year Organized: 1804
Square Miles: 656
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Court House: 155 Main Street, Jefferson Place
County Courthouse Annex
Brookville, PA 15825-1281
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
named for President Thomas Jefferson.
Demographics:
County QuickFacts:
Census Bureau Quick Facts
History
Created on March 26, 1804 from part
of Lycoming County and named for President Thomas Jefferson. It was attached to
Westmoreland County until 1806 and then to Indiana County until 1830, when it
was formally organized. Brookvillle, the county seat, was laid out in 1830 and
incorporated as a borough on April 9, 1834. It is said to have been named for
the numerous brooks and in the vicinity.
Punxsutawney was a Delaware Indian village on the Great Shamokin Path.
Pennsylvania acquired the region at the Treaty of Fort Stanwix, or "Last
Purchase," in 1784. Lumber, marketed via conveniently southward flowing streams,
was the first industry and also led to boat building. Large-scale coal mining
began after the Civil War, assisted by a Pennsylvania Railroad trunk line
(opened in 1873), English capital investors, the Pennsylvania Geological Survey,
and good advertising. Mining fell off in the mid-1920s due both to labor
discontent and the falling coal market, but Jefferson is still the state's ninth
most productive bituminous county. Natural gas made possible a glass
manufacturing industry beginning in 1897. Although farms cover one-fifth of the
county, agricultural cash receipts are not high. Manufacture of building
structural elements and mining-related items is important in today's economy.
The value added from manufactures increased 56 percent between 1987 and 1992.
Punxsutawney's Groundhog Day is one of the nation's favorite myths, and the Cook
Forest State Park (shared with Clarion County) is the only significant preserved
stand of primeval hemlock and white pine trees in the state.
Neighboring Counties:
Cities and Towns:
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- Barnett |
township |
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- Bell |
township |
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- Big Run |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Brockway |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Brookville
(County
Seat) |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Clover |
township |
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- Coolspring |
township |
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- Corsica |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Falls Creek |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Gaskill |
township |
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- Hamilton |
township |
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- Heath |
township |
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- Henderson |
township |
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- McCalmont |
township |
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- Punxsutawney |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Reynoldsville |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Ringgold |
township |
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- Rose |
township |
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- Snyder |
township |
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- Summerville |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Sykesville |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Timblin |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Union |
township |
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- Warsaw |
township |
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- Winslow |
township |
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- Worthville |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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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,
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