|
Pennsylvania State...
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Pennsylvania Counties
|
|
Click Image to Enlarge
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. |
|
| |
|
|
Montour County, Pennsylvania
Montour County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Danville
Year Organized: 1850
Square Miles: 131 |
Court House: 29 Mill Street
County Courthouse
Danville, PA 17821-1999
|
Etymology - Origin of County Name
Named for Madame Montour, a woman of Indian and French descent
who was prominent in the Indian affairs
Demographics:
County QuickFacts:
Census Bureau Quick Facts
History
Created on May 3, 1850 from part of
Columbia County and named for Madame Montour, a woman of Indian and French
descent who was prominent in the Indian affairs. Danville, the county seat, was
laid out in 1792 and incorporated as a borough on February 27, 1849. It had been
the county seat of Columbia County from 1813 to 1846.
The Mahoning Creek area was settled beginning in 1769. Danville is named for
Daniel Montgomery, son of early settler General William Montgomery. It had been
Columbia County's seat until 1845, but when Bloomsburg usurped Columbia County
Danville wanted a new county so it could once more be a county seat. Newspaper
activist Valentine Best went to the legislature and pushed the creation through.
Danville became a highway, canal, and then rail link on the North Branch route
from Sunbury to Wilkes-Barre. Danville's Big Mill, eventually owned by Bethlehem
Steel, made iron and steel from 1838 to 1938, Rails were a specialty—the first
T-rails made in the United States were made here. In 1873 a national financial
panic eclipsed the mill's future, it lost out in competition with Bessemer
process and Lake Superior ore, and in 1896 it experienced a major explosion. But
iron and steel specialties production continued until the end of World War II.
Silk and shirt-making factories were productive from the early 1900s. Half of
the county's area is farmed.
Geography
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 132 square miles (343 kmē), of which, 131
square miles (339 kmē) of it is land and 2 square miles (4 kmē) of it (1.17%) is water.
Neighboring Counties:
- Lycoming County (north)
- Columbia County (east)
- Northumberland County (southwest)
Cities and Towns:
|
- Cooper |
township |
|
|
- Danville
(County Seat) |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
|
- Mahoning |
township |
|
|
- Valley |
township |
|
|
- Washingtonville |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
|
- West Hemlock |
township |
County Resources:
Enter County Resources and Information Here
|
|
Online High Schools
|
|
|
|
|
| |
County Resource Guide
|
|
|
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." |
|
|
| |
|
