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Area code: 570: FIPS code: 42-04848: GNIS feature ID: 1215574: Beavertown is a borough in Snyder County, located in Central Pennsylvania's Susquehanna River Valley ...
According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 18.9 square miles (49 km 2), all land. Beaver Township is bordered by Adams Township to the north, Franklin Township to the east, West Perry Township to the south and Spring Township to the west. The borough of Beavertown lies in the center of the township.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 332 square miles (860 km 2), of which 329 square miles (850 km 2) is land and 2.8 square miles (7.3 km 2) (0.8%) is water. [4] It is the fifth-smallest county in Pennsylvania by area. Snyder County is in the Ridge and Valley region of the Appalachian Mountains.
Many quarries were opened temporarily to provide stone for one or a few local or regional construction projects, but could not compete later when railroads allowed for economical transportation of heavy building materials to the area. Quarrying spurred the construction of railways and vice versa, from the 1826 construction of the Granite ...
Area [10] Map Kent County: 001: Dover: 1680: Created from Whorekill (Hoarkill) District. Formerly known as St. Jones County. Named in 1682 by William Penn for the English county of Kent. 189,789: 800 sq mi (2,072 km 2) New Castle County: 003: Wilmington: 1664: Original County (Formally New Amstel)
Area codes: 814/582: FIPS code: ... 2805466 [2] Beavertown is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Blair County, Pennsylvania, United States.
In 2013 construction was completed on a parking area to allow public access to Star Gazers Stone. [2] Built c. 1724 near the forks of the Brandywine, the Harlan House was enlarged c.1758, and is likely the first house built in Newlin Township. The Harlan family lived in the house until 1956, and carefully preserved the location of the stone ...
Stone American Indian artifacts, chiefly arrow and spear points, are to be found at the north edge of town near the bank of Middle Creek. The completion of the Sunbury and Lewistown Railroad in the 1870s connected Paxtonville with these two cities, and for many years a number of daily passenger trains stopped at the Paxtonville station, which ...