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Local councils of the Boy Scouts of America The Ideal Scout, a statue by R. Tait McKenzie in front of the Bruce S. Marks Scout Resource Center, the former headquarters of the Cradle of Liberty Council in Philadelphia Scouting portal The program of the Boy Scouts of America is administered through 272 local councils, with each council covering a geographic area that may vary from a single city ...
The program of the Boy Scouts of America is administered through 253 local councils, with each council covering a geographic area that may vary from a single city to an entire state. Each council receives an annual charter from the National Council and is usually incorporated as a charitable organization. [1]
Merged with Calumet Council, Chicago Area Council, Northwest Suburban Council: Pathway to Adventure Council: 49: Desert Pacific Council: San Diego: California: 1993: 2004: Name changed to San Diego-Imperial: San Diego-Imperial 49 29: Desert Trails Council: Yuma: Arizona: 1959: 1993: Merged with of San Diego 49: San Diego County 49 262: Detroit ...
This category is intended for council-level and lower articles about the Boy Scouts of America. For BSA national level camps, see Category:National camps of the Boy Scouts of America. Please refer to WP:S-BSA for project guidelines on notability and layout for BSA articles at the council level and below.
There are four camps: Camp Independence (Cub Scouts & Webelos), Camp Freedom (Boy Scouts with Dining Hall), Camp Liberty (Boy Scouts with food for you to prepare at your camp site), and Eagle Base (a high-adventure program). Hidden Valley Scout Reservation: New Birth of Freedom Council: Loysville, PA: Active Horseshoe Scout Reservation [41]
In June 2021, "National Service Territories" came into effect for the Boy Scouts of America. This affects how the BSA national office works with the local councils The transition from the four regions of the Boy Scouts of America to the sixteen National Service Territories were made as an effort to reduce staff and save costs. At the territory ...
The Boy Scouts did not track the race of scouts who earned the rank of Eagle. For many years it was thought that Edgar Cunningham, who earned his rank in 1926 as a member of Troop 12 in Waterloo, Iowa in what was then Wapsipinicon Area Council, was the first black recipient of the Eagle rank. [360] [361]
All Boy Scouts of America units are owned and operated by chartered organizations. Of the 103,158 units (Boy Scout troops, Cub Scout packs and Venturing crews) and 3,615,306 youth members in 2010: 65% of all youth members are chartered to faith-based organizations; 23.5% of all youth members are chartered to civic organizations