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The Erie Triangle is a roughly 300-square-mile (780-square-kilometre) tract of 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.
The Devonian Catskill Group or the Catskill Clastic wedge is a unit of mostly terrestrial sedimentary rock found in Pennsylvania and New York. Minor marine layers exist in this thick rock unit (up to 10,000 feet (3,000 m)). It is equivalent to the Hampshire Formation of Maryland, West Virginia, and Virginia.
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.
The Northern Tier region as a whole is notorious for its high unemployment and low per-capita incomes in comparison to the rest of Pennsylvania, though the discovery of the Marcellus Formation provided an economic boost in the 2000s and 2010s. The region's top two employers are government-funded services, specifically health care and education ...
On February 18, 1809, Dr Robert H Rose purchased 248 tracts of land totaling about 100,000 acres which at that time was part of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. A part of the land purchased would later form the whole of Silver Lake Township, Susquehanna County. [3]
Eagle Lake is a census-designated place (CDP) in Covington Township, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 12. [5] At that time, of 95 total housing units, five were occupied, while the remainder were for seasonal or recreational use. [6]
As of the census [8] of 2000, there were 6,699 people, 2,115 households, and 1,793 families living in the township. The population density was 268.8 inhabitants per square mile (103.8/km 2).
Weigelstown is a census-designated place (CDP) in York County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 15,136 at the 2020 census. The population was 15,136 at the 2020 census. Geography