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The Wedge (or Delaware Wedge) is a 1.068-square-mile (684-acre; 2.77 km 2) [1] tract of land along the borders of Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania. Ownership of the land was disputed until 1921; it is now recognized as part of Delaware. [ 2 ]
The Erie Triangle is a roughly 300-square-mile (780-square-kilometre) tract of American land that was the subject of several competing colonial-era claims.It was eventually acquired by the U.S. federal government and sold to Pennsylvania so that the state would have access to a freshwater port on Lake Erie.
Parts of Luzerne and Lycoming Counties; originally called Ontario County, renamed as Bradford County in 1812. William Bradford, second U.S. Attorney General: 59,695: 1,161 sq mi (3,007 km 2) Bucks County: 017: Doylestown: 1682: One of the original counties at the formation of Pennsylvania: The English county of Buckinghamshire: 645,984: 622 sq ...
U.S. Route 220, U.S. Route 15 and U.S. Route 6 cross the region. [1]Sayre Yard is a large railyard currently operated by Norfolk Southern Railroad that extends across the state line into Waverly, New York and connects rail transport centers via Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, to freight yards in Philadelphia, Harrisburg, and Baltimore to Buffalo and other Upstate New York cities as well as the ...
The Pennsylvania Dutch region in south-central Pennsylvania is a favorite for sightseers. The Pennsylvania Dutch, including the Amish, Mennonites, and at least 15 other sects are common in the rural areas around the cities of Lancaster, York, and Harrisburg with smaller populations extending northeast to the Lehigh Valley and up to the Susquehanna Valley.
Wilburton Number Two is located in southern Columbia County at (40.813200, -76.390439), [2] in the western part of Conyngham Township It is bordered to the west by Mount Carmel Township in Northumberland County , to the southwest by Wilburton Number One , and to the south by Midvalley Highway.
Pennsylvania State Game Lands Number 12 are in the Pennsylvania Game Commission's Northeast Region. Pennsylvania Route 54 passes through the southwestern corner of the game lands. There are numerous parking spots on the northwestern edge of the game lands, as well as smaller numbers along the northern, eastern, and southeastern edges.
Upper Milford Township is a township in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, United States.The township's population was 7,292 at the 2010 census. [2] Upper Milford Township is a rural area southwest of Allentown in the Lehigh Valley, which had a population of 861,899 and was the 68th-most populous metropolitan area in the U.S. as of the 2020 census.