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An 1836 map of Pennsylvania's counties. The Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) code, used by the U.S. government to uniquely identify counties, is provided with each entry. FIPS codes are five-digit numbers; for Pennsylvania the codes start with 42 and are completed with the three-digit county code.
Houston is located at (40.249790, -80.210275 [5]According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of 0.4 square miles (1.0 km 2), all land.. Several waterways go through H
Compare this map with its major roads of today and its terrains with the above canal system map. The Susquehanna Canal of the Pennsylvania Canal System was funded and authorized as part of the 1826 Main Line of Public Works enabling act, and would later become the Susquehanna Division of the Pennsylvania Canal under the Pennsylvania Canal Commission.
Lehigh Canal, White Haven to Easton, Grand Canal 72 miles (116 km) (1848-1862) The Lehigh was built in two stages, the lower canal running 46.2 miles (74.4 km) built in 1818-1820 connected the coal fields from the slack water pool at Jim Thorpe to Easton on the Delaware River, where it provided coal to the Delaware & Raritan Canal to New York ...
Additions to the West Branch Canal included the Bald Eagle Crosscut Canal, which ran 4 miles (6.4 km) through Lock Haven and Flemington along Bald Eagle Creek. [4] It linked the West Branch Canal to a privately financed addition, the Bald Eagle and Spring Creek Navigation, that extended the canal system another 22 miles (35 km) to Bellefonte along Bald Eagle and Spring creeks. [4]
The new County was quite large and contained what would later become Greene, Allegheny and Beaver Counties. [9] On March 23, 1790, Chartiers Township was established by the Washington County Court of Quarter Session from the southern part of Cecil Township, with a petition from the inhabitants residing in its boundaries.
The Houston Ship Channel, in Houston, Texas, is part of the Port of Houston, one of the busiest seaports in the world. [1] The channel is the conduit for ocean-going vessels between Houston-area terminals and the Gulf of Mexico , and it serves an increasing volume of inland barge traffic.
PA-28's current senator is Republican Kristin Phillips-Hill, who assumed office in 2019. Before being elected she served in the Pennsylvania House from 2015 to 2018. Wrightsville is District 47 in the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives. PA-47 is currently represented by Republican Joe D'Orsie.