Cambria County is a
county
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in the
Commonwealth
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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, ...
. As of the
2020 census, the population was 133,472. Its
county seat
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is
Ebensburg.
The county was created on March 26, 1804, from parts of
Bedford
Bedford is a market town in Bedfordshire, England. At the 2011 Census, the population of the Bedford built-up area (including Biddenham and Kempston) was 106,940, making it the second-largest settlement in Bedfordshire, behind Luton, whilst t ...
,
Huntingdon
Huntingdon is a market town in the Huntingdonshire district in Cambridgeshire, England. The town was given its town charter by John, King of England, King John in 1205. It was the county town of the historic county of Huntingdonshire. Oliver Cr ...
, and
Somerset
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Wales
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, which in Latin is known as "
Cambria
Cambria is a name for Wales, being the Latinised form of the Welsh name for the country, . The term was not in use during the Roman period (when Wales had not come into existence as a distinct entity). It emerged later, in the medieval period ...
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Cambria County comprises the
Johnstown, PA
Metropolitan Statistical Area
In the United States, a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) is a geographical region with a relatively high population density at its core and close economic ties throughout the area. Such regions are neither legally incorporated as a city or tow ...
, which is also included in the Johnstown-
Somerset
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Combined Statistical Area
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.
Geography
According to the
U.S. Census Bureau
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, the county has a total area of , of which is land and (0.8%) is water.
Cambria has a warm-summer
humid continental climate
A humid continental climate is a climatic region defined by Russo-German climatologist Wladimir Köppen in 1900, typified by four distinct seasons and large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers and freez ...
(''Dfb'') and average monthly temperatures in downtown Johnstown range from 27.8 °F in January to 71.0 °F in July, while in Ebensburg they range from 23.9 °F in January to 67.7 °F in July
PRISM Climate Group, Oregon State U
Adjacent counties
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Clearfield County
Clearfield County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 80,562. The county seat is Clearfield, and the largest city is DuBois. The county was created in 1804 and later organized in 1822.
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(north)
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Blair County
Blair County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 122,822. Its county seat is Hollidaysburg. The county was created on February 26, 1846, from parts of Huntingdon and Bedford counties.
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(east)
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Bedford County (southeast)
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Somerset County (south)
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Westmoreland County (southwest)
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Indiana County
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(west)
National protected areas
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Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site (part)
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Johnstown Flood National Memorial
Major highways
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Demographics
As of the
census
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of 2000, there were 152,598 people, 60,531 households, and 40,616 families residing in the county. The
population density
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was 222 people per square mile (86 per km
2). There were 65,796 housing units at an average density of 96 per square mile (37 per km
2). The racial makeup of the county was 95.80%
White
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, 2.83%
Black
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or
African American
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, 0.09%
Native American, 0.38%
Asian, 0.02%
Pacific Islander
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, 0.25% from
other races, and 0.64% from two or more races. 0.89% of the population were
Hispanic
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The term commonly applies to countries with a cultural and historical link to Spain and to viceroyalties for ...
or
Latino of any race. 27.7% were of
German
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* Germany (of or related to)
**Germania (historical use)
* Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language
** For citizens of Germany, see also German nationality law
**Ge ...
, 10.2%
Irish, 10.1%
Italian, 10.0%
Polish, 6.5%
Slovak, 6.2%
American
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* American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America"
** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America
** American ancestry, pe ...
and 5.6%
English
English usually refers to:
* English language
* English people
English may also refer to:
Peoples, culture, and language
* ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England
** English national ...
ancestry.
There were 60,531 households, out of which 27.00% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 52.80% were
married couples
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living together, 10.40% had a female householder with no husband present, and 32.90% were non-families. 29.80% of all households were made up of individuals, and 15.60% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.38 and the average family size was 2.96.
In the county, the population was spread out, with 21.00% under the age of 18, 9.00% from 18 to 24, 26.20% from 25 to 44, 24.10% from 45 to 64, and 19.70% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 41 years. For every 100 females there were 94.20 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 91.30 males.
2020 Census
Law and government
As of November 7, 2022, there are 86,213 registered voters in Cambria County.
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Republican: 42,609 (49.42%)
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Democratic: 34,244 (39.72%)
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Independent
Independent or Independents may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media Artist groups
* Independents (artist group), a group of modernist painters based in the New Hope, Pennsylvania, area of the United States during the early 1930s
* Independe ...
: 7,011 (8.13%)
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Third Party
Third party may refer to:
Business
* Third-party source, a supplier company not owned by the buyer or seller
* Third-party beneficiary, a person who could sue on a contract, despite not being an active party
* Third-party insurance, such as a V ...
: 2,349 (2.72%)
Cambria has been a swing county in statewide elections since the 1990s, with all four statewide winners carrying it in 2008. Cambria County is one of Pennsylvania's most competitive counties. That is primarily due to its mixed urban-rural ratio.
Al Gore
Albert Arnold Gore Jr. (born March 31, 1948) is an American politician, businessman, and environmentalist who served as the 45th vice president of the United States from 1993 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton. Gore was the Democratic ...
received 50.3% of the county vote to 46.4% for
George W. Bush in 2000, but Bush carried it with 50.8% of the vote to 48.7% for
John Kerry
John Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is an American attorney, politician and diplomat who currently serves as the first United States special presidential envoy for climate. A member of the Forbes family and the Democratic Party, he ...
in 2004–only the third time since 1928 that the county had supported a Republican for president. Cambria returned to the Democratic Presidential column in 2008, with
Barack Obama
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receiving 49.4% of the vote to 48.7% for
John McCain
John Sidney McCain III (August 29, 1936 – August 25, 2018) was an American politician and United States Navy officer who served as a United States senator from Arizona from 1987 until his death in 2018. He previously served two te ...
. In 2011 the GOP won a majority on the county commissioners board and in 2012 gave Mitt Romney 58.1% of the vote to Barack Obama's 40.1%.
In 2016,
Donald Trump
Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021.
Trump graduated from the Wharton School of the University of P ...
carried the county with 66.5% of the vote to Hillary Clinton's 29.7%, winning the county by 36.8%. This broke the modern record for margin of victory in the county of 35.4% set by
Lyndon Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson (; August 27, 1908January 22, 1973), often referred to by his initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969. He had previously served as the 37th vice ...
in 1964.
Four years later, Trump won the county with an even bigger margin of 37.34%.
County commissioners
Other county offices
State Senate
State House of Representatives
United States House of Representatives
United States Senate
Public services
Waste management
Waste management or waste disposal includes the processes and actions required to manage waste from its inception to its final disposal.
This includes the collection, transport, treatment and disposal of waste, together with monitorin ...
for the county is regulated by the
Cambria County Solid Waste Management Authority.
Education
Colleges and universities
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Christ the Saviour Seminary, Johnstown
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Mount Aloysius College
Mount Aloysius College is a private Catholic college in Cresson, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1853 and is conducted under the tradition of the Sisters of Mercy. The college is located on a 193-acre campus in the Allegheny Mountains.
History ...
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Saint Francis University
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University of Pittsburgh at Johnstownbr>
University of Pittsburgh Johnstown , University of Pittsburgh
Community, junior, and technical colleges
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Cambria-Rowe Business College
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Pennsylvania Highlands Community College
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Commonwealth Technical Institute, Johnstown
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Wrightco Technologies Technical Training Institute, Ebensburg
Public school districts
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Blacklick Valley School District
The Blacklick Valley School District is a diminutive, rural pupil school district located in Cambria County, Pennsylvania. The district serves the communities of: Nanty-Glo and Vintondale and Blacklick Township. The district encompasses appr ...
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Cambria Heights School District
The Cambria Heights School District covers the Boroughs of Carrolltown, Chest Springs, Hastings and Patton as well as Chest Township, Clearfield Township, East Carroll Township, Elder Township and West Carroll Township in Cambria County, ...
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Central Cambria School District
The Central Cambria School District is a small, suburban school district covering Ebensburg Boro, Cambria Township, and Jackson Township in Cambria County, Pennsylvania. The district encompasses approximately . According to 2010 US Census B ...
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Conemaugh Valley School District
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Ferndale Area School District
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Forest Hills School District
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Glendale School District (also in Clearfield County)
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Greater Johnstown School District
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Northern Cambria School District
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Penn Cambria School District (also in Blair County)
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Portage Area School District
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Richland School District
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Westmont Hilltop School District
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Windber Area School District
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(also in Somerset County)
Private schools
*All Saints Catholic School, Cresson
*Appalachian Youth Service
*Arbutus Park Manor, Johnstown
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Bishop McCort High School, Johnstown
*Cambria County Child Development Center, Ebensburg
*Cambria County Christian School, Johnstown
*Carousel Learning & Development Center, Johnstown
*Cathedral Catholic Academy, Johnstown
*Center for Achievement
*Childrens Express Inc., Cresson
*Easter Seal Day Care Center, Johnstown
*Genesis Christian Academy, Johnstown
*Holy Name School, Ebensburg
*Houston House, Johnstown
*Laurel Highlands Therapeutic Academy, Ebensburg
*Little Learning Lamp, Johnstown
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Northern Cambria Catholic School, Nicktown
*Occupational Preparation School, Ebensburg
*Our Mother of Sorrow School, Johnstown
Richland Academy Montessori School Johnstown
*Sean Davison School of Driving, Lilly
*St Michael's School, Loretto
*St Sophia Orthodox Christian Academy, Johnstown
According to the Pennsylvania Department of Education's Ed Names and Addresses, July 1, 2015
Vocational/Technical schools
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Admiral Peary Vocational Technical SchoolGreater Johnstown Career & Technology Center
Recreation
There are two
Pennsylvania state parks in Cambria County.
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Prince Gallitzin State Park
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is named for
Demetrius Gallitzin
Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin (December 22, 1770 – May 6, 1840) was an emigre Russian aristocrat and Catholic priest known as The Apostle of the Alleghenies and also in the United States as Prince Galitzin. He was a member of the House of Goli ...
, a
Russia
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n nobleman turned
Catholic priest
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who was instrumental in the settlement of Cambria County.
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Laurel Ridge State Park surrounds a 70-mile (113-km) hiking trail that begins in Cambria County and ends at
Ohiopyle State Park in
Fayette County.
Communities
Under Pennsylvania law, there are four types of incorporated municipalities:
cities,
boroughs
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History
In the Middle A ...
,
townships, and, in at most two cases,
towns
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world.
Origin and use
The word "town" shares an or ...
. The following cities, boroughs and townships are located in Cambria County:
City
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Johnstown
Boroughs
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Ashville Ashville or Asheville may refer to:
Places United States
* Ashville, Alabama
* Ashville, Louisville, Kentucky
* Ashville, New York
* Asheville, North Carolina
** Asheville metropolitan area
** Asheville School
** Asheville High School
** Ashevil ...
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Brownstown
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Carrolltown
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Cassandra
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Chest Springs
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Cresson ''Cresson'' is the French word for ''watercress''. It may refer to:
; Places
* Battle of Cresson, a small battle fought on May 1, 1187, in what now is Israel, near Nazareth
* Cresson, Pennsylvania, a United States borough
* Cressona, Pennsylvania ...
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Daisytown
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Dale
Dale or dales may refer to:
Locations
* Dale (landform), an open valley
* Dale (place name element)
Geography
;Australia
* The Dales (Christmas Island), in the Indian Ocean
;Canada
* Dale, Ontario
;Ethiopia
* Dale (woreda), district
;Norway
* ...
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East Conemaugh
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Ebensburg (county seat)
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Ehrenfeld
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Ferndale
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Franklin
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Gallitzin
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Geistown
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Hastings
Hastings () is a large seaside town and borough in East Sussex on the south coast of England,
east to the county town of Lewes and south east of London. The town gives its name to the Battle of Hastings, which took place to the north-west ...
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Lilly
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Lorain
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Loretto
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Nanty Glo
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Northern Cambria
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Patton
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Portage
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Sankertown
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Scalp Level
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South Fork
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Southmont
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Summerhill Summerhill or Summer Hill may refer to the following places:
Australia
*Summer Hill, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney
* Summerhill, Tasmania, a suburb of Launceston
* Summerhill (Mount Duneed), a prefabricated iron cottage in Victoria
Canada
* ...
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Tunnelhill (partly in
Blair County
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B ...
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Vintondale
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Westmont
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Wilmore
Townships
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Adams
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Allegheny
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Barr
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Blacklick
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Cambria
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Chest
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Clearfield
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Conemaugh
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Cresson ''Cresson'' is the French word for ''watercress''. It may refer to:
; Places
* Battle of Cresson, a small battle fought on May 1, 1187, in what now is Israel, near Nazareth
* Cresson, Pennsylvania, a United States borough
* Cressona, Pennsylvania ...
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Croyle
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Dean
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East Carroll
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East Taylor
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Elder
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Elder or elders may refer to:
Positions Administrative
* Elder (administrative title), a position of authority
Cultural
* North American Indigenous elder, a person who has and ...
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Gallitzin
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Jackson
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Lower Yoder
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Middle Taylor
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Munster
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Portage
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*
Reade
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Richland
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Stonycreek
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Summerhill Summerhill or Summer Hill may refer to the following places:
Australia
*Summer Hill, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney
* Summerhill, Tasmania, a suburb of Launceston
* Summerhill (Mount Duneed), a prefabricated iron cottage in Victoria
Canada
* ...
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Susquehanna
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Upper Yoder
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Washington
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* Washington (state), United States
* Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States
** A metonym for the federal government of the United States
** Washington metropolitan area, the metropolitan area centered o ...
*
West Carroll
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West Taylor
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White
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Census-designated places
Census-designated place
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CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counterparts of incorporated places, suc ...
s are geographical areas designated by the
U.S. Census Bureau
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for the purposes of compiling demographic data. They are not actual jurisdictions under Pennsylvania law. Other unincorporated communities, such as
villages, may be listed here as well.
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Beaverdale
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Belmont
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Blandburg
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Colver
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Dunlo
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Elim
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Mundys Corner
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Oakland
Oakland is the largest city and the county seat of Alameda County, California, United States. A major West Coast port, Oakland is the largest city in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, the third largest city overall in the Bay ...
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Revloc
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Riverside
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Salix
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Sidman
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Spring Hill
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St. Michael
Michael (; he, מִיכָאֵל, lit=Who is like El od, translit=Mīḵāʾēl; el, Μιχαήλ, translit=Mikhaḗl; la, Michahel; ar, ميخائيل ، مِيكَالَ ، ميكائيل, translit=Mīkāʾīl, Mīkāl, Mīkhāʾīl), also ...
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University of Pittsburgh Johnstown
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Vinco
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Westwood
Unincorporated communities
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Belsano
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Coupon
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Dean
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Dysart
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Elmora
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Elton
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Emeigh
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Fallentimber
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Flinton
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Garmantown
*Glasgow
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Hollentown
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Marsteller
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Mineral Point
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New Germany
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Nicktown
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Parkhill
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Saint Benedict
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Saint Boniface
Boniface, OSB ( la, Bonifatius; 675 – 5 June 754) was an English Benedictine monk and leading figure in the Anglo-Saxon mission to the Germanic parts of the Frankish Empire during the eighth century. He organised significant foundations o ...
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Twin Rocks
Population ranking
The population ranking of the following table is based on the
2010 census of Cambria County.
† ''county seat''
See also
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Cambria Somerset Authority
The Cambria Somerset Authority (CSA) was formed in 1999, in anticipation of acquiring water interests and related land properties of Manufacturers Water Company, a subsidiary of Bethlehem Steel Corporation. Transfer of ownership occurred in Augus ...
- Water supply authority for Cambria County and Somerset County
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Cambria County, Pennsylvania
References
External links
Cambria County official websiteCambria County Historical Societyhoused in the
A.W. Buck House
*[ftp://ftp.dot.state.pa.us/public/pdf/BPR_pdf_files/Maps/GHS/Roadnames/cambria_GHSN.PDF Pennsylvania Department of Transportation Map of Cambria County showing cities, boroughs, unincorporated villages, and townships.]
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1807 establishments in Pennsylvania
Cambria County, Pennsylvania,
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Laurel Highlands
Populated places established in 1807