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Belleville is a census-designated place (CDP) in the Kishacoquillas Valley of Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,827 at the 2010 census. Much of the population is Amish or Mennonite. [3]
In 1956 the Byler Amish had one church district with 40 members. [5] In his 1981 book Plain Buggies Stephen Scott writes that the Byler Amish have "only one district around Belleville" and "about 90 members". [6] As of 2000, the Byler had three churches in Mifflin County and are also affiliated with districts near New Wilmington, Pennsylvania. [7]
According to Albrecht Powell, the Pennsylvania Amish has not always been the largest group of U.S. Amish as is commonly thought. The Amish population in the U.S. numbers more than 390,000 and is growing rapidly (around 3-4% per year), due to large family size (seven children on average) and a church-member retention rate of approximately 80%."
Drilling further into the numbers, there were 4,125 registered Amish voters in Lancaster County in 2020, according to a 2023 presentation Kopko authored titled "Plain Politics: Assessing Old Order ...
The Amish settlement in the Kishacoquillas Valley was founded in 1791. It is the third-oldest Amish settlement still in existence. In 2013 there were 26 Amish church districts, indicating an estimated Amish population of more than 3,000 people.
The United States Office of Management and Budget [19] has designated Mifflin County as the Lewistown, PA Micropolitan Statistical Area (μSA). [20] As of the 2010 United States Census [ 21 ] the micropolitan area ranked 10th most populous in the State of Pennsylvania and the 237th most populous in the United States with a population of 46,682.
The Amish alone did not give Trump Pennsylvania’s 19 electoral votes. With 99% of the votes counted as of Monday evening, the Republican nominee led Vice President Kamala Harris by just over ...
Pennsylvania State Police investigators are still working to determine a motive in the killing of a 23-year-old Amish woman in her Fish Flats Road home in Sparta Township, Crawford County, on Feb. 26.