Buckhorn is a

census-designated place A census-designated place (CDP) is a concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counterparts of incorporated places, such ...

(CDP) in

Columbia County, Pennsylvania Columbia County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It is located in Northeastern Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 64,727. Its county seat is Bloomsburg. The county was created on March 22, 1813, from part ...

, United States. It is part of

Northeastern Pennsylvania Northeastern Pennsylvania (NEPA) is a geographic region of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania that includes the Pocono Mountains, the Endless Mountains, and the industrial cities of Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, Pittston, Hazleton, Nanticoke, and Carbon ...

. The population was 318 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Bloomsburg-Berwick micropolitan area. It uses the Bloomsburg ZIP code of 17815.

History

Historically, there was an

Indian Indian or Indians may refer to: Peoples South Asia * Indian people, people of Indian nationality, or people who have an Indian ancestor ** Non-resident Indian, a citizen of India who has temporarily emigrated to another country * South Asia ...

path leading through the Buckhorn area, and in what would become Buckhorn the path was

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by the

antler Antlers are extensions of an animal's skull found in members of the Cervidae (deer) family. Antlers are a single structure composed of bone, cartilage, fibrous tissue, skin, nerves, and blood vessels. They are generally found only on male ...

s of a deer in a

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sapling. When the first non-native settlers arrived in the Fishing Creek valley, they created another path that intersected the Indian path, and the community came to be named for the deer antlers. The community was founded due to discovery of

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in the area. Vaniah Rees built the first house in the community in 1820. The first store in the community was opened in 1836. Mail was periodically brought to Buckhorn starting in 1850, but mail was not brought to Buckhorn on a daily basis until 1883.

Geography

Buckhorn is located in western Columbia County at (41.015605, -76.498202). It is in the eastern part of Hemlock Township. According to the

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, the CDP has a total area of , of which , or 0.68%, is water. It is drained by Fishing Creek into the

Susquehanna River The Susquehanna River (; Lenape: Siskëwahane) is a major river located in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, overlapping between the lower Northeast and the Upland South. At long, it is the longest river on the East Coast of the ...

. Buckhorn is served by

Pennsylvania Route 42 Pennsylvania Route 42 (PA 42) is a state route located in central Pennsylvania. The southern terminus of the route is at PA 61 in Centralia. The northern terminus is at U.S. Route 220 (US 220) in Laporte. The route heads north through Columbia ...

Pennsylvania Route 44 Pennsylvania Route 44 (PA 44) is a -long state highway in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The route, which is signed north-south, is designated from Interstate 80 (I-80) and PA 42 in Buckhorn northwest to the New York state line near New York S ...

, and

Interstate 80 Interstate 80 (I-80) is an east–west transcontinental freeway that crosses the United States from downtown San Francisco, California, to Teaneck, New Jersey, in the New York metropolitan area. The highway was designated in 1956 as one o ...

. Buckhorn's terrain is almost entirely flat, with hills in the southern and northeastern corners. Outside the center of town, there is farmland and a

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. The

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(formerly Columbia Mall) is just outside the CDP to the east, along PA Route 42 next to its interchange with Interstate 80.

Demographics

As of the

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of 2000, there were 176 people, 63 households, and 45 families residing in the CDP. The population density was . There were 63 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the CDP was 100.00%

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. There were 63 households, out of which 30.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 60.3% were

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living together, 9.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 27.0% were non-families. 20.6% of all households were made up of individuals, and 11.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.79 and the average family size was 3.24. In the CDP, the population was spread out, with 27.8% under the age of 18, 6.8% from 18 to 24, 26.7% from 25 to 44, 23.3% from 45 to 64, and 15.3% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 36 years. For every 100 females, there were 89.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 98.4 males. The median income for a household in the CDP was $27,813, and the median income for a family was $36,250. Males had a median income of $28,750 versus $21,250 for females. The

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for the CDP was $17,042. About 11.1% of families and 15.2% of the population were below the

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, including 28.0% of those under the age of eighteen and 11.1% of those sixty five or over.

References

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