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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
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
named for General Joseph Warren
Demographics:
County QuickFacts:
Census Bureau Quick Facts
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.
Neighboring Counties:
Cities and Towns:
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- Bear Lake |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Brokenstraw |
township |
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- Clarendon |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Columbus |
township |
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- Conewango |
township |
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- Freehold |
township |
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- Glade |
township |
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- Mead |
township |
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- Pittsfield |
township |
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- Pleasant |
township |
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- Sheffield |
township |
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- Spring Creek |
township |
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- Sugar Grove |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Tidioute |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Triumph |
township |
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- Warren
(County Seat) |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Youngsville |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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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