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Pennsylvania Counties
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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
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Juniata County, Pennsylvania
Juniata County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Mifflintown
Year Organized: 1831
Square Miles: 392 |
Court House: P.O. Box 68
County Courthouse
Mifflintown, PA 17059-0068
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
It was named for Governor Thomas Mifflin.
Demographics:
County QuickFacts:
Census Bureau Quick Facts
History
Created on March 2, 1831, from part
of Mifflin County and named for the Juniata River. The Indian name Juniata is
said to mean "people of the standing stone." Mifflintown, the county seat, was
laid out in 1791 and incorporated as a borough on March 6, 1833. It was named
for Governor Thomas Mifflin.
Squatters settled here and were evicted by the provincial government in 1750.
After they returned, Indians raided them in 1755–1756. There was protection from
Forts Bigham and Peterson, but the Indians captured Bigham. The Pennsylvania
Canal was the backbone of the early economy beginning in 1826, followed by the
Pennsylvania Railroad in the late 1840s. The canal closed about 1900, and the
Tuscarora Valley Railroad closed in 1934. Small clothing manufacturing continues
to the present, but kosher poultry production is the biggest industry. Juniata
is the fourth largest poultry-producing county in the state. Farms cover 36.6
percent of the land.
Geography
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 394 square miles (1,019 kmē), of which, 392
square miles (1,014 kmē) of it is land and 2 square miles (5 kmē) of it (0.50%) is water.
Neighboring Counties:
- Snyder County (north)
- Northumberland County (east)
- Dauphin County (southeast)
- Perry County (south)
- Franklin County (southwest)
- Huntingdon County (west)
- Mifflin County (northwest)
Cities and Towns:
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- Beale |
township |
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- Delaware |
township |
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- Fayette |
township |
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- Fermanagh |
township |
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- Greenwood |
township |
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- Mifflin |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Mifflintown
(County
Seat) |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Monroe |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Port Royal |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Spruce Hill |
township |
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- Thompsontown |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Turbett |
township |
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- Walker |
township |
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- West Perry |
township |
County Resources:
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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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