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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.

Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania

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

County Seat: Montrose
Year Organized: 1810
Square Miles: 823

Court House:

P.O. Box 218
County Courthouse
Montrose, PA 18801-0218

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Named for the Susquehanna River.

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

County History

Created on February 21, 1810, from part of Luzerne County and named for the Susquehanna River. It remained attached to Luzerne County until 1812. Montrose, the county seat was laid out in 1812 and incorporated as a borough on March 19, 1824. Its name is a combination of "mont," the French word for "mountain" and Rose, for Dr. L R. Rose, a prominent citizen.

In 1787 entrepreneur John Nicholson sent some settlers to the site of Brooklyn, although a Hessian deserter may have been the very first in the area. Pennsylvania purchased the land from Indians at Fort Stanwix in 1784, and Connecticut formally yielded its claim in 1786 (although individual Connecticut settlers eventually re-purchased their land from Pennsylvania). Maple sugar was the first major product; lumbering followed. Woodworking factories developed, producing furniture, artistic scrolls and designs, and toys. A fire in Montrose in 1886 destroyed a large toy factory. Tanning was important while the stands of hemlock survived. Valuable anthracite was discovered at Forest City in 1871. Good railroad connections with Lake Erie and New York did much for the economy. Once Susquehanna had a superior dairy production that was marketed to urban areas by railroads. Flagstone is profitable to mine. Bendix Corporation came to Montrose in 1951, and its flight systems division now employs one thousand in South Montrose. Farms cover 36 percent of the county land, and Susquehanna has the twelfth largest number of cows among the sixty-seven counties and the twelfth highest figure for cash receipts from dairy products. It is also a major producer of hay.

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 832 square miles (2,156 km²), of which, 823 square miles (2,131 km²) of it is land and 10 square miles (25 km²) of it (1.15%) is water.

Neighboring Counties:

Broome County, New York (north)
Wayne County (east)
Lackawanna County (southeast)
Wyoming County (southwest)
Bradford County (west)
Tioga County, New York (northwest)

Cities and Towns:

- Apolacon	township
- Ararat	township
- Bridgewater	borough	Incorporated Area
- Brooklyn	township
- Choconut	township
- Clifford	township
- Dimock	township
- Forest City	borough	Incorporated Area
- Forest Lake	township
- Friendsville	borough	Incorporated Area
- Gibson	township
- Great Bend	borough	Incorporated Area
- Hallstead	borough	Incorporated Area
- Harford	township
- Herrick	township
- Hop Bottom	borough	Incorporated Area
- Jackson	township
- Kingsley	township
- Lanesboro	borough	Incorporated Area
- Lathrop	township
- Lenox	township
- Little Meadows	borough	Incorporated Area
- Montrose (County Seat)	borough	Incorporated Area
- New Milford	borough	Incorporated Area
- Nicholson	borough	Incorporated Area
- Springville	township
- Susquehanna	township
- Susquehanna Depot	borough	Incorporated Area
- Thompson	borough	Incorporated Area
- Union Dale	borough	Incorporated Area
- Vandling	borough	Incorporated Area

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."