Northern Tier (other)

	Northern Tier (other) Northern Tier may refer to: * Northern Tier (Pennsylvania), five northern counties in Pennsylvania * Northern Tier (United States), the northernmost confine of the lower 48 United States * Northern Tier National High Adventure Bases, of the Boy Scouts of America * Northern Tier Energy, an American business partnership created in 2010 * Northern Tier, a Cold War term from 1955–1979 for the four Middle Eastern members of the Baghdad Pact, also known as the Central Treaty Organization: Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Pakistan. {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Northern Tier (Pennsylvania) The Northern Tier is a geographic region consisting of five rural counties in north-central Pennsylvania. Geography The region is bordered to the north by the Southern Tier of New York state. Together, these regions are known as the Twin Tiers. The counties and important towns in the Northern Tier are: Bradford Athens * Sayre ** Towanda * Sullivan Dushore Laporte * Susquehanna Forest City Montrose ** New Milford * Tioga Mansfield Wellsboro Wyoming * Tunkhannock The region is bounded to the north by the Southern Tier of New York, to the west by Northern Pennsylvania, and to the east by Northeastern Pennsylvania. Population The five Northern Tier counties are home to roughly 180,000 people distributed among many small towns and the countryside. The largest town is Sayre which is located on the left-east bank of the North Branch Susquehanna River and is on Interstate 86 where it dips just south of the New York state line. Transportation U.S. Rou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Northern Tier (United States) The Northern Tier is the northernmost part of the contiguous United States, along the border with Canada (including the border on the Great Lakes). It can be defined as the states that border Canada (excluding Alaska), but historians include all of New England in the Northern Tier, as well as states of the Pacific Northwest, because of the common culture they shared for more than a century.David Hackett Fischer, ''Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America'' Sometimes the area was called "Greater New England", because of the influence of its culture as migrants moved west across the continent. It had a consistent political culture until the 1960s. Moving east to west (as the majority of population did), such states include: Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont, New York (state), New York, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Oregon and Washington (state), Washington. See also Upper Midwest North ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Northern Tier National High Adventure Bases Northern Tier High Adventure is a collection of high adventure bases run by the Boy Scouts of America in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness of Minnesota, Ontario's Quetico Provincial Park and Canadian Crown Lands, Manitoba's Atikaki Provincial Wilderness Park, Woodland Caribou Provincial Park, and points beyond. Northern Tier is the oldest of the four National High Adventure Bases operated by the Boy Scouts of America; the others currently in operation are Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico, Florida Sea Base in the Keys, and The Summit in West Virginia. Programs at Northern Tier vary by season. In the summer, participants undertake wilderness canoe excursions. There are no lodgings along these trips, and aircraft and motorboats are heavily restricted. Typical treks may cover 50 to 150 miles and take 6 to 10 days, with a maximum duration of 14 days. Accompanying each crew is a staff member called an "Interpreter", formerly known as a "Charlie Guide". Programs and bases ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Northern Tier Energy Northern Tier Energy LP was an American downstream energy limited partnership. In addition to owning the SuperAmerica gas station and convenience store chain, it also owned an oil refinery in St. Paul Park, Minnesota and an interest in a pipeline. In 2014 it ranked 525 on the Fortune 1000. History The company was created in 2010 when Acon Investments and TPG Capital acquired $554 million worth of assets from Marathon. Western Refining Western Refining, Inc., is a Texas-based Fortune 200 and Global 2000 crude oil refiner and marketer operating primarily in the Southwestern, North-Central and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. Western Refining (WNR) has been publicly tr ... acquired a controlling interest in the company in 2013 for $775 million. By 2015, Western's ownership stake was 38% and it proposed in October to acquire the remainder of the company; it decided to dissolve Northern Tier early by buying all the shares and pay $860 million to close the deal on June ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]