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Pennsylvania Route 879
Pennsylvania Route 879 (PA 879) is a state highway located in Clearfield and Centre Counties in Pennsylvania. The western terminus is at U.S. Route 219 (US 219) and PA 729 in Grampian. The eastern terminus is at PA 144 in Snow Shoe Township. Route description PA 879 begins at an intersection with US 219 and PA 729 in the borough of Grampian in Clearfield County, heading northeast on two-lane undivided 1st Street. The road passes homes, crossing into Penn Township and becoming Curwensville Grampian Highway. Here, the route passes through a mix of fields and woods with some residences, curving to the east. PA 879 heads into Pike Township and winds through more forested areas. The road turns to the northeast and crosses Anderson Creek, continuing along the north bank of the creek as it passes near industrial areas and heads into the borough of Curwensville. The route becomes State Street and turns southeast and heads through residential areas before heading into the ...
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Newspapers
A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports and art, and often include materials such as opinion columns, weather forecasts, reviews of local services, obituaries, birth notices, crosswords, editorial cartoons, comic strips, and advice columns. Most newspapers are businesses, and they pay their expenses with a mixture of subscription revenue, newsstand sales, and advertising revenue. The journalism organizations that publish newspapers are themselves often metonymically called newspapers. Newspapers have traditionally been published in print (usually on cheap, low-grade paper called newsprint). However, today most newspapers are also published on websites as online newspapers, and some have even abandoned their print versions entirely. Newspapers developed in the 17th ...
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Pennsylvania Route 453
Pennsylvania Route 453 (PA 453) is a state highway located in Huntingdon, Blair, and Clearfield counties in Pennsylvania. The southern terminus is at U.S. Route 22 (US 22) in Water Street; the northern terminus is at PA 879 in Curwensville. Route description Huntingdon and Blair counties PA 453 begins at an intersection with US 22 in the community of Water Street in Morris Township, Huntingdon County, heading north on three-lane undivided Birmingham Pike, carrying two northbound lanes and one southbound lane. The road heads through woods before heading into agricultural areas and intersecting the western terminus of PA 45. At this point, the route becomes concurrent with PA 45 Truck and narrows to two lanes as it heads northwest through more open farmland with occasional woods. PA 453 enters Tyrone Township in Blair County and turns north through more agricultural areas as an unnamed road, gaining a second northbound lane before also gaining a second southbound ...
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Covington Township, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania
Covington Township is a township in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, United States. Its population was 497 at the 2020 census. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of , of which is land and (0.29%) is water. Communities * Frenchville *Guenot Settlement *Keewaydin *Rolling Stone Demographics As of the census of 2010, there were 526 people, 232 households, and 167 families residing in the township. The population density was 11.9 people per square mile (4.6/km2). There were 431 housing units at an average density of 8.2/sq mi (3.2/km2). The racial makeup of the township was 99.36% White, 0.32% from other races, and 0.32% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.32% of the population. There were 232 households, out of which 29.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 61.2% were married couples living together, 6.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 28.0% were non-fam ...
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Bald Hill, Pennsylvania
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Surveyor, Pennsylvania
Surveyor is an unincorporated community in Clearfield County, in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania (; ( Pennsylvania Dutch: )), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States. It borders Delaware to its southeast, .... History The community takes its name from nearby Surveyor Run. References Unincorporated communities in Pennsylvania Unincorporated communities in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania {{ClearfieldCountyPA-geo-stub ...
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Girard Township, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania
Girard Township is a township in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 565 at the 2020 census. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of , of which is land and (0.42%) is water. Communities *Bald Hill *Congress Hill *Coudley *Gillingham *Lecontes Mills *Surveyor Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 674 people, 251 households, and 197 families residing in the township. The population density was 10.6 people per square mile (4.1/km). There were 496 housing units at an average density of 7.8/sq mi (3.0/km). The racial makeup of the township was 99.70% White, 0.15% Native American and 0.15% Asian. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.15% of the population. There were 251 households, out of which 37.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 64.5% were married couples living together, 10.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 21.5% were non-families. 1 ...
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Shawville, Pennsylvania
Shawville is an unincorporated community in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, United States. The community is located along the West Branch Susquehanna River at the intersection of Pennsylvania Route 879 and Pennsylvania Route 970, northeast of Clearfield. Shawville has a post office, with ZIP code 16873. There is no independent demographic data available for Shawville. Notable Site Shawville Generating Stationwas a 626 megawatt coal-fired power station formerly run by GenOn Energy. In December 2016, the plant was converted to a 590 megawatt natural gas power station. In a 2011 investigation conducted by several environmental groups, including the Environmental Integrity Project (EIP), EarthJustice, and the Sierra Club The Sierra Club is an environmental organization with chapters in all 50 United States, Washington D.C., and Puerto Rico. The club was founded on May 28, 1892, in San Francisco, California, by Scottish-American preservationist John Muir, who be ..., Shawv ...
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Pennsylvania Route 970
Pennsylvania Route 970 (PA 970) is a state highway in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania. The route runs from U.S. Route 322 (US 322) in Woodland to PA 879 in Shawville. Route description PA 970 begins at an intersection with US 322 in Bradford Township, heading north on Shawville Highway, a three-lane undivided road with two northbound lanes and one southbound lane. The road runs through a mix of fields and woods with some commercial development, with the lane configuration changing to two southbound lanes and one northbound lane as it runs near a shopping center. Farther north, the route comes to an interchange with I-80. Past this interchange, PA 970 becomes a two-lane road and continues north through agricultural areas with some woods and homes, passing through Pleasant Valley. The route heads into more forested areas and heads north-northwest, crossing a R.J. Corman Railroad line and running near the Shawville Generating Station before crossing the West Branch Susquehanna ...
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Interstate 80 In Pennsylvania
Interstate 80 (I-80) in the US state of Pennsylvania runs for across the northern part of the state. It is designated as the Keystone Shortway and officially as the Z.H. Confair Memorial Highway. This route was built mainly along a completely new alignment, not paralleling any earlier US Routes, as a shortcut to the tolled Pennsylvania Turnpike to the south and New York State Thruway to the north. It does not serve any major cities in Pennsylvania and serves mainly as a cross-state route on the Ohio–New York City corridor. Most of I-80's path across the state goes through hilly and mountainous terrain, while the route passes through relatively flat areas toward the western part of the state. I-80 serves many smaller cities in central to northern Pennsylvania including Sharon, Clarion, DuBois, Bellefonte, Lock Haven, Milton, Bloomsburg, Hazleton, and Stroudsburg. It also passes close but never into four slightly larger cities: Williamsport, State College, Scrant ...
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Pennsylvania Route 153
Pennsylvania Route 153 (PA 153) is a state highway located in Clearfield and Elk counties in Pennsylvania. The southern terminus is at PA 253/ PA 453 near Viola. The northern terminus is at U.S. Route 219 (US 219) near Brockport. Route description PA 153 begins at an intersection with PA 253/ PA 453 in the community of Viola in Gulich Township, Clearfield County, heading northeast on two-lane undivided Ginter Morann Highway. The road heads through forests before continuing through a mix of farmland and woodland with some homes, passing through Ginter and Morann. The route continues into Woodward Township and becomes Morann Avenue, turning north through wooded areas with some fields and homes, passing to the east of State Correctional Institution – Houtzdale. PA 153 enters the borough of Houtzdale and becomes Brisbin Street, passing homes and coming to an intersection with PA 53. From here, the road passes a few businesses before running through more residential areas ...
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Pennsylvania Department Of Transportation
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) oversees transportation issues in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The administrator of PennDOT is the Pennsylvania Secretary of Transportation, currently Yassmin Gramian. Presently, PennDOT supports over of state roads and highways, about 25,000 bridges, as well as new roadway construction, the exception being the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, although they currently follow PennDOT policies and procedures. In addition, other modes of transportation are supervised or supported by PennDOT. These include aviation, Railroad, rail traffic, mass transit, intrastate highway shipping traffic, motor vehicle safety & licensing, and Driver's license, driver licensing. PennDOT also supports the Ports of Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Erie, Pennsylvania, Erie. The current budget is approximately $3.8 billion in federal and state funds. The state budget is supported by the motor vehicle fuels tax which is dedicated solely to ...
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