Porter Township is a

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that is located in

Huntingdon County 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 ...

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, United States. The population was 1,968 at the time of the 2010 census.

History

Porter Township was formed in 1814 out of the former Huntingdon Township and was named for Andrew Porter. The Juniata Iron Works, Barree Forge and Furnace, and

Pulpit Rocks Pulpit Rocks is a geological formation adjacent to Pike Road, or Alexandria Pike Road, Old U.S. Route 22, northwest of Huntingdon in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. These weathered rock formations were instrumental in the determination of the s ...

are listed on the

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Geography

According to the

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, the township has a total area of 35.6 square miles (92.3 km²), of which 35.4 square miles (91.6 km²) is land and 0.2 square mile (0.6 km²) (0.67%) is water.

Demographics

As of the

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of 2000, there were 1,917 people, 768 households, and 565 families residing in the township. The population density was . There were 870 housing units at an average density of 24.6/sq mi (9.5/km²). The racial makeup of the township was 99.27%

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, 0.21%

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, 0.10%

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, 0.26% from

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, and 0.16% from two or more races.

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of any race were 0.63% of the population. There were 768 households, out of which 30.6% had children who were under the age of eighteen living with them; 60.0% were

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living together, 9.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 26.4% were non-families. 23.3% of all households were made up of individuals, and 11.1% had someone living alone who was sixty-five years of age or older. The average household size was 2.50 and the average family size was 2.93. Within the township, the population was spread out, with 23.7% of residents who were under the age of eighteen, 6.7% who were aged eighteen to twenty-four, 26.1% who were aged twenty-five to sixty-four, 29.7% who were aged forty-five to sixty-four, and 13.8% who were sixty-five years of age or older. The median age was forty-one years. For every one hundred females, there were 96.8 males. For every one hundred females who were aged eighteen or older, there were 91.7 males. The median income for a household in the township was $38,145, and the median income for a family was $43,813. Males had a median income of $30,863 compared with that of $23,819 for females. The

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for the township was $16,764. Approximately 8.3% of families and 10.7% of the population were living below the

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, including 15.3% of those who were under the age of eighteen and 7.3% of those who were aged sixty-five or older.

Gallery

Alexandria Pike Bridge 1889 1.jpg, Neff Bridge

References

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