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The following is a list of the 67 counties of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.The city of Philadelphia is coterminous with Philadelphia County, the municipalities having been consolidated in 1854, and all remaining county government functions having been merged into the city after a 1951 referendum.
Lafayette Township is a township located in the Skylands Region of Sussex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 2,358, [8] a decrease of 180 (−7.1%) from the 2010 census count of 2,538, [17] [18] which in turn reflected an increase of 238 (+10.3%) from the 2,300 counted in the 2000 census. [19]
The county was created on September 26, 1783, from part of Westmoreland County and named after the Marquis de Lafayette. [3] The county is part of the Southwest Pennsylvania region of the state. [a] Fayette County is part of the Pittsburgh, PA Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Grey Towers National Historic Site, also known as Gifford Pinchot House or The Pinchot Institute, is located just off US 6 west of Milford, Pennsylvania, in Milford Township. It is the ancestral summer home of Gifford Pinchot, first chief of the newly developed United States Forest Service (USFS) and twice elected governor of Pennsylvania.
Minisink Archeological Site, also known as Minisink Historic District, is an archeological site of 1320 acres located in both Sussex County, New Jersey and Pike County, Pennsylvania. [3] It was part of a region occupied by Munsee-speaking Lenape that extended from southern New York across northern New Jersey to northeastern Pennsylvania. The ...
Lafayette Township is a township in McKean County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,766 at the 2020 census. The population was 1,766 at the 2020 census. [ 2 ]
New Jersey's county names derive from several sources, though most of its counties are named after place names in England and prominent leaders in the colonial and revolutionary periods. Bergen County is the most populous county—as of the 2010 Census—with 905,116 people, while Salem County is the least populous with 66,083 people.
Pennsylvania Dutch Country refers to an area of Pennsylvania, which has a high percentage of Amish, Mennonite, and "Fancy Dutch" residents. The Pennsylvania Dutch language was historically common, and is still spoken today by many Amish people residing in the state. It consists of the following counties: York; Perry; Berks; Cumberland; Adams ...