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It was renamed to Great Bend Township on November 28, 1814. [4] The present name comes from a meander in the Susquehanna River. [5] Great Bend Borough was incorporated from part of Great Bend Township in 1861 and Hallstead Borough was similarly formed in 1874. [4] The Presidential Motorcade passed through Great Bend on August 23, 2013.
Great Bend is a borough in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, United States, 39 miles (63 km) north of Scranton. According to 2020 Census data, Great Bend's population was 634, down 13.6% from 2010. [ 3 ]
An authority can be organized by any county, city, town, borough, township, or school district of the Commonwealth, acting singly or jointly with another municipality. An authority is established by ordinance by one or more municipalities. The governing bodies of the parent local unit or units appoint the members of the authority's board.
Township 963 20 Franklin: Township 937 21 New Milford: Borough 868 22 Jackson: Township 848 23 Lathrop: Township 841 24 Great Bend: Borough 734 25 Choconut: Township 713 26 Herrick: Township 713 27 Oakland: Borough 616 28 Oakland: Township 564 29 Ararat: Township 563 30 Jessup: Township 536 31 Harmony: Township 528 32 Lanesboro: Borough 506 33 ...
Home rule municipalities in Pennsylvania enjoy the opposite situation (i.e., they may govern themselves except where expressly forbidden by state law), and are governed according to their unique home rule charter rather than one of the above codes. While most home rule charter municipalities continue to reference their previous forms of ...
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In its 2002 Census of Governments, the U.S. Census Bureau listed 1,885 municipal authorities in Pennsylvania. Prominent among them are the Allegheny County Airport Authority, which operates Pittsburgh International Airport and Allegheny County Airport, large sewer authorities in Allegheny and Delaware counties, and parking authorities in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.
This is a list of towns and boroughs in Pennsylvania.There are currently 956 municipalities classified as boroughs and one classified as a town in Pennsylvania.Unlike other forms of municipalities in Pennsylvania, boroughs and towns are not classified according to population.