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Blue Knob was thought to be the highest mountain in Pennsylvania until 1921, when the U.S. Geological Survey determined a summit of 3,213 feet (979 m) was higher (later named Mount Davis). In the 1950s the summit was cleared of vegetation and was the location of Claysburg Air Force Station until it was deactivated in 1961.
Blue Knob State Park is a 6,128-acre (2,480 ha) Pennsylvania state park in Kimmel, Lincoln, and Pavia townships in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. [2] The average annual snowfall at the park is about 12 feet (370 cm). The park is named for Blue Knob, the second highest mountain in Pennsylvania at 3,146 feet (959 m). [2]
Blue Knob is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Blair County, Pennsylvania, United States. It was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census. [2] The CDP is in southwestern Blair County, at the southern end of Juniata Township.
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The wind farm was built by Gamesa and encompasses parts of Cambria and Blair counties north of Blue Knob Mountain near Altoona. It officially became operational in June 2007 and has 40 wind turbines, each of a 2 MW nameplate capacity, for a total maximum production of 80 megawatts of electricity.
The township includes the census-designated place of Blue Knob, plus parts of the CDPs of Puzzletown and Foot of Ten. According to the United States Census Bureau , the township has a total area of 26.1 square miles (67.7 km 2 ), of which 26.1 square miles (67.5 km 2 ) is land and 0.04 square miles (0.1 km 2 ), or 0.21%, is water.
Nearby recreational and protected areas include Crichton McCormick Park in Portage to the north, Pennsylvania State Game Lands Number 198 to the northeast, Blue Knob State Park to the east, Gallitzin State Forest (Babcock Division) to the south, and the Johnstown Flood National Memorial to the northwest.
Altoona (/ æ l ˈ t uː n ə / al-TOO-nə) [9] is a city in Blair County, Pennsylvania, United States.The population was 43,963 at the time of the 2020 census. [10] It is the principal city of the Altoona metropolitan area, which includes all of Blair County and was recorded as having a population of 122,823.