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East Deer Township has three land borders, including Frazer to the north, south and west, Tarentum to the northeast, and a very small border with Springdale Township to the south-southeast along the Allegheny River. Across the river in Westmoreland County, East Deer runs adjacent with Arnold.
By the middle of the 20th century, these nonnative deer were regarded as pests because of their impact on the native forests. From the 1950s, deer cullers were employed by the government to keep the numbers in check. The export of venison from wild deer started in the 1960s, turning a pest into an export earner. Industry pioneers saw an ...
Deer gets its name from Chief Deer, a sub-chief of Iroquois leader Guyasuta. Half of Deer Township was used to create Indiana Township in 1805. In 1836, upon petition of its citizens, Deer was divided into East Deer and West Deer. In 1860, the western boundary of West Deer was moved eastward, the land being used to form Richland Township.
A farmstead in Perry Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania.. Agriculture is a major industry in the U.S. commonwealth of Pennsylvania. [1] As of the most recent United States Census of Agriculture conducted in 2017, there were 53,157 farms in Pennsylvania, covering an area of 7,278,668 acres (2,945,572 hectares) with an average size of 137 acres (55 hectares) per farm. [2]
White Deer Township is a township in Union County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 4,331 at the 2020 census. The population was 4,331 at the 2020 census. [ 2 ]
The Office of Management and Budget [17] has designated Berks County as the Reading, PA Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). As of the 2010 U.S. census [ 18 ] the metropolitan area is the 10th-most populous in Pennsylvania and the 128th-most populous in the U.S. with a population of 413,491.
Beaufort Farms (/ ˈ b oʊ f ər t / BOH-fərt) is an unincorporated community in northern Susquehanna Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, in the Harrisburg–Carlisle Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is a historical farmland settlement and currently developed community of neighborhoods.
Centre Furnace, the first industrial facility in the area 157,795: 1,112 sq mi (2,880 km 2) Chester County: 029: West Chester: 1682: One of the original counties at the formation of Pennsylvania: The English city of Chester in the county of Cheshire: 549,784: 760 sq mi (1,968 km 2) Clarion County: 031: Clarion: 1839: Parts of Venango and ...