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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.

Warren County, Pennsylvania

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

County Seat: Warren
Year Organized: 1800
Square Miles: 884

Court House:

204 Fourth Street
County Courthouse
Warren, PA 16365-2376

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Named for General Joseph Warren

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

County History

Created on March 12, 1800, from parts of Allegheny and Lycoming Counties and named for General Joseph Warren. It was attached to Crawford County until 1805 and then to Venango County until 1819 when it was formally organized. Warren, the county seat was laid out in 1795 and incorporated as a borough on April 3, 1832.

French explorers visited the area in 1739 and 1749. Pennsylvania acquired the land from Indian nations in 1784, in the "Last Purchase." "Mad Anthony" Wayne's campaign in the Old Northwest, in 1794, finally made it safe for settlers to stay in northwestern Pennsylvania. David Mead contested the ownership with the Holland Land Company until 1796. The acrimony raised by "actual settlers" suits against the powerful absentee land companies' titles slowed the growth of the area. The Cornplanter reservation land was acknowledged to belong to the Seneca Indians from 1791 until the Kinzua Dam was completed, in 1964. At first, lumber was abundant and was floated down many streams to where it could be sold. The rafting lumber business lasted from 1800 to 1900. Today, second and third growth trees are harvested and logging companies continue, managed under regulations. Agriculture and population developed slowly, but oil and gas have been profitable since the 1870s. The county was especially favored by railroad access. Warren welcomed the Erie Railroad in 1859, followed by branches of the Pennsylvania and the New York Central. Metal, concrete, and tobacco products prospered here in the past. Oil refining and lubricant manufacturing are still important activities, as is furniture making. In the five years from 1987 to 1992, the county's figure for value added (to the national economy) from manufacturing rose 86 percent Although 15 percent of land is in farms, meat and dairying are the areas in which agricultural receipts are competitive with other rural counties.

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 898 square miles (2,325 km²), of which, 883 square miles (2,288 km²) of it is land and 14 square miles (37 km²) of it (1.60%) is water.

Neighboring Counties:

Chautauqua County, New York (north)
Cattaraugus County, New York (northeast)
McKean County (east)
Elk County (southeast)
Forest County (south)
Venango County (southwest)
Crawford County (west)
Erie County (west)

Cities and Towns:

- Bear Lake	borough	Incorporated Area
- Brokenstraw	township
- Clarendon	borough	Incorporated Area
- Columbus	township
- Conewango	township
- Freehold	township
- Glade	township
- Mead	township
- Pittsfield	township
- Pleasant	township
- Sheffield	township
- Spring Creek	township
- Sugar Grove	borough	Incorporated Area
- Tidioute	borough	Incorporated Area
- Triumph	township
- Warren (County Seat)	city	Incorporated Area
- Youngsville	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."