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Pennsylvania Spatial Data Access (PASDA), [4] the official public geospatial data clearinghouse for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania marked its 18th year in 2014. PASDA, which has grown from a small website offering 35 data sets in 1996 to the expansive user-centered data clearinghouse that it is today, has become a staple of the GIS community in Pennsylvania.
Articles and categories related to the geography of Pennsylvania The main article for this category is Geography of Pennsylvania . For human settlements, see Category:Populated places in Pennsylvania
The Pennsylvania Dutch region in south-central Pennsylvania is a favorite for sightseers. The Pennsylvania Dutch, including the Amish, Mennonites, and at least 15 other sects are common in the rural areas around the cities of Lancaster, York, and Harrisburg with smaller populations extending northeast to the Lehigh Valley and up to the Susquehanna Valley.
The increased use of other roofing materials, especially asphalt shingles, resulted in reduced demand for slate. Many quarries also removed all of the easily extractable slate present. A final factor to the industry's decline was the Great Depression, which resulted in greatly reduced home constructions that represented the market for slate ...
Individual USPS ZIP codes can cross state, place, county, census tract, census block group and census block boundaries, so the Census Bureau asserts that "there is no correlation between ZIP codes and Census Bureau geography". [2] Moreover, the USPS frequently realigns, merges, or splits ZIP codes to meet changing needs.
Hanover Township is a township in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, United States.The population of Hanover Township was 11,785 at the 2020 census. [2]Hanover Township is 7.7 miles (12.4 km) northeast of Allentown, 67.4 miles (108.5 km) north of Philadelphia, and 86.4 miles (139.0 km) west of New York City.
By 1868, Shaler lost much of its land to the new boroughs. In 1900, Shaler became one of the early townships to be classified as a township of the first class. The township's boundaries remain basically the same today as they were in 1900. Early settlement of the Shaler area was sporadic, with small farming and mercantile villages appearing.
An 1895 map showing most of Radnor Township together with other communities on the Pennsylvania Main Line. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 13.8 square miles (36 km 2), of which 13.8 square miles (36 km 2) is land and 0.07% is water.