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Plainfield is located in the eastern part of West Pennsboro Township at (40.202023, -77.286621), [4] along Pennsylvania Route 641 (Main Street), which leads east 5 miles (8 km) to the center of Carlisle, the county seat, and west 6 miles (10 km) to Newville
Home of former Governor Jim McGreevey. Plainfield was settled in 1684 by Quakers, [27] and incorporated as a city in 1869. Formerly a bedroom suburb in the New York metropolitan area, it has become the urban center of 10 closely allied municipalities, with diversified industries, including printing and the manufacture of chemicals, clothing, electronic equipment, and vehicular parts.
Gail F. Shollar (1957–1992) was a 35-year-old Piscataway, NJ mother who was raped and murdered after being carjacked from the Middlesex Shopping Mall in South Plainfield, NJ. She was one of the first people in New Jersey to be a victim of carjacking.
An 1836 map of Pennsylvania's counties. The Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) code, used by the U.S. government to uniquely identify counties, is provided with each entry. FIPS codes are five-digit numbers; for Pennsylvania the codes start with 42 and are completed with the three-digit county code.
In 2008, Pennsylvania had 1,117 State and local law enforcement agencies. [2] Those agencies employed a total of 33,670 staff. [2] Of the total staff, 27,413 were sworn officers (defined as those with general arrest powers). [2]
Map of the United States with Pennsylvania highlighted in red. Pennsylvania is a state located in the Northeastern United States.As of the 2020 U.S. census, Pennsylvania is the fifth-most populous state with 13,002,700 inhabitants [1] and the 32nd-largest by land area spanning 44,742.70 square miles (115,883.1 km 2) of land. [2]
Plainfield, in the eastern part of the township, is a census-designated place. Elliottson, Greason, and West Hill are also in the east. Mount Rock is situated on U.S. 11 near the center point of the southern border, and Big Spring is near the southwest corner of the township.
Two days after some African Americans began protesting and rioting in Newark in 1967, the Plainfield riots began. Plainfield is located about 18 miles southwest of Newark, and about a third of Plainfield's 48,000 citizen were African Americans then. Tensions remained high that summer through the night of Friday, July 14 when a fight broke out ...