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Orangeville, Pennsylvania
Orangeville is a borough in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is part of Northeastern Pennsylvania. The population was 478 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Bloomsburg-Berwick micropolitan area. History In 1822, an Ohio native Clemuel G. Ricketts made a plan to set up a community near Knob Mountain, although there were settlers in the area before that time. This community became Orangeville. Soon after the town was laid out, several buildings, including a house and a tannery, were erected in the area. Once five or six houses were built in the town, a post office was built there. Several names were originally considered for the community, including Knobtown, Rickettsville, and The Trap, but Orangeville was chosen after Orange County, New York, and Orange, New Jersey. In 1853, a business making plows and grain-threshers was built in the community. Orangeville was incorporated in 1900. Geography Orangeville is located north of the center of Columbia County at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Borough (Pennsylvania)
In the Commonwealth (U.S. state), United States Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, a borough (sometimes spelled boro) is a self-governing Municipality, municipal entity, equivalent to a town in most jurisdictions, usually smaller than a city, but with a similar population density in its residential areas. Sometimes thought of as "junior cities", boroughs generally have fewer powers and responsibilities than full-fledged cities. Description All municipalities in Pennsylvania are classified as either Local government in Pennsylvania#City, cities, boroughs, or township (Pennsylvania), townships. The only exception is the town of Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, Bloomsburg, recognized by the state government as the only incorporated town in Pennsylvania. Boroughs tend to have more developed business districts and concentrations of public and commercial office buildings, including courthouses. Boroughs are larger, less spacious, and more developed than the relatively rural townships, which oft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orange, New Jersey
The City of Orange (known simply as Orange) is a Township (New Jersey), township in Essex County, New Jersey, Essex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 34,447, an increase of 4,313 (+14.3%) from the 2010 United States census, 2010 census count of 30,134, which in turn reflected a decline of 2,734 (-8.3%) from the 32,868 counted in the 2000 United States census, 2000 census. The New Jersey Legislature originally incorporated Orange as a township (New Jersey), township on November 27, 1806, from parts of Newark, New Jersey, Newark Township. Parts of the township were taken on April 14, 1834, to form the now-defunct Clinton Township, Essex County, New Jersey (Historical), Clinton Township. On January 31, 1860, Orange was reincorporated as a town (New Jersey), town. Parts of the town were taken to form South Orange Township (April 1, 1861, now known as Maplewood, New Jersey, Maplewood), Fairmount Township, New Je ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Native American (U
Native Americans or Native American usually refers to Native Americans in the United States Native Americans (also called American Indians, First Americans, or Indigenous Americans) are the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Indigenous peoples of the United States, particularly of the Contiguous United States, lower 48 states and A .... Related terms and peoples include: Ethnic groups * Indigenous peoples of the Americas, the pre-Columbian peoples of North, South, and Central America and their descendants * Indigenous peoples in Canada ** First Nations in Canada, Canadian Indigenous peoples who are neither Inuit nor Métis ** Inuit, Indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic and subarctic regions of Greenland, Labrador, Quebec, Nunavut, the Northwest Territories, and Alaska. ** Métis in Canada, specific cultural communities who trace their descent to early communities consisting of both First Nations people and European settlers * Indigenous peoples of Costa Rica * Indi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
African American (U
African Americans, also known as Black Americans and formerly also called Afro-Americans, are an Race and ethnicity in the United States, American racial and ethnic group that consists of Americans who have total or partial ancestry from any of the Black people, Black racial groups of Africa. African Americans constitute the second largest ethno-racial group in the U.S. after White Americans. The term "African American" generally denotes descendants of Slavery in the United States, Africans enslaved in the United States. In 2023, an estimated 48.3 million people self-identified as Black, making up 14.4% of the country’s population. This marks a 33% increase since 2000, when there were 36.2 million Black people living in the U.S. African-American history began in the 16th century, with Africans being sold to Atlantic slave trade, European slave traders and Middle Passage, transported across the Atlantic to Slavery in the colonial history of the United States, the Western He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White (U
White is the lightest color and is achromatic (having no chroma). It is the color of objects such as snow, chalk, and milk, and is the opposite of black. White objects fully (or almost fully) reflect and scatter all the visible wavelengths of light. White on television and computer screens is created by a mixture of red, blue, and green light. The color white can be given with white pigments, especially titanium dioxide. In ancient Egypt and ancient Rome, priestesses wore white as a symbol of purity, and Romans wore white togas as symbols of citizenship. In the Middle Ages and Renaissance a white unicorn symbolized chastity, and a white lamb sacrifice and purity. It was the royal color of the kings of France as well as the flag of monarchist France from 1815 to 1830, and of the monarchist movement that opposed the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War (1917–1922). Greek temples and Roman temples were faced with white marble, and beginning in the 18th c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Census
A census (from Latin ''censere'', 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating population information about the members of a given Statistical population, population, usually displayed in the form of statistics. This term is used mostly in connection with Population and housing censuses by country, national population and housing censuses; other common censuses include Census of agriculture, censuses of agriculture, traditional culture, business, supplies, and traffic censuses. The United Nations (UN) defines the essential features of population and housing censuses as "individual enumeration, universality within a defined territory, simultaneity and defined periodicity", and recommends that population censuses be taken at least every ten years. UN recommendations also cover census topics to be collected, official definitions, classifications, and other useful information to coordinate international practices. The United Nations, UN's Food ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susquehanna River
The Susquehanna River ( ; Unami language, Lenape: ) is a major river located in the Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, crossing three lower Northeastern United States, Northeast states (New York, Pennsylvania and Maryland). At long, it is the longest river on the East Coast of the United States. By Drainage basin, watershed area, it is the 16th-largest river in the United States,Susquehanna River Trail Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission, accessed March 25, 2010.Susquehanna River , Green Works Radio, accessed March 25, 2010. and also the longest river in the early 21st-century continental United State ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fishing Creek (North Branch Susquehanna River)
Fishing Creek is a long tributary of the Susquehanna River in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, Columbia County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It joins the Susquehanna River near the census-designated place of Rupert, Pennsylvania, Rupert and the town of Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, Bloomsburg. The drainage basin, watershed has an area of . Nomadic Native Americans arrived in the lower reaches of Fishing Creek around 8000 BCE, and some were spending winters in the upper reaches of the valley by 3000 to 2000 BCE. In the past few centuries, the Fishing Creek area has been home to many industries, watermill, mills, and dams. It drains parts of five Pennsylvania counties: Columbia, Montour County, Pennsylvania, Montour, Sullivan County, Pennsylvania, Sullivan, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, Luzerne, and Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, Lycoming. The creek's main tributaries include Hemlock Creek (Fishing Creek tributary), Hemlock Creek, Little Fishing Creek, Green Creek (Fishing Creek ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berwick, Pennsylvania
Berwick is a borough (Pennsylvania), borough in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is part of Northeastern Pennsylvania and is located southwest of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Wilkes-Barre. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, Berwick had a population of 10,355. It is one of the two principal communities of the Bloomsburg–Berwick metropolitan area, which covers Columbia and Montour County, Pennsylvania, Montour counties, and had a combined population of 85,562 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census. History Berwick was founded by Evan Owen, a Welsh people, Welsh Quakers, Quaker and surveying, surveyor. He was the son of Hugh Owen from Trefeglwys, Montgomeryshire, Wales. Berwick was named after Berwick-upon-Tweed, England. Situated on the north bank of the Susquehanna River, the borough was first settled in 1769, founded in 1786, and incorporated in 1818. Light and heavy manufacturing industries, such as American Car and Foundry Company and Wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pennsylvania Route 93
Pennsylvania Route 93 (PA 93) is a state route located in Carbon, Luzerne, and Columbia counties in northeastern Pennsylvania. The southern terminus is at U.S. Route 209 (US 209) in Nesquehoning, about halfway from PA just north of the 1800s community of Lausanne Landing, the southern toll station of the Lausanne & Nescopeck Turnpike (1804)—along whose path (east of the Susquehanna River) the highway was built. The northern terminus of the route is at PA 487 in Orangeville, the part of the road west of the Susquehanna and Berwick once being part of the Susquehanna & Tioga Turnpike (1806). The route heads northwest as an undivided road from Nesquehoning through mountainous areas, passing through Beaver Meadows. The road reaches the city of Hazleton, where it passes through developed areas and crosses PA 309. PA 93 continues through West Hazleton and becomes a divided highway before it reaches an interchange with Interstate 81 (I-81). The road becomes undivid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benton, Columbia County, Pennsylvania
Benton is a borough (Pennsylvania), borough in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is part of Northeastern Pennsylvania. The population was 824 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Bloomsburg-Berwick micropolitan area. Geography Benton is located in northern Columbia County at (41.196144, -76.383354). It is surrounded by Benton Township, Columbia County, Pennsylvania, Benton Township, a separate municipality. According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of , of which is land and , or 2.96%, is water. Fishing Creek (North Branch Susquehanna River), Fishing Creek, a south-flowing tributary of the Susquehanna River, runs through the eastern part of Benton. History The Benton area was first settled by two families in 1792. A schoolhouse was opened in 1799. Starting around 1860, tanning and lumber industries began to grow north of the borough. By 1868, Benton had about fifty houses. In the year of 1910, Benton was destroyed by a fire. Two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orange Township, Pennsylvania
Orange Township is a township in Columbia County, Pennsylvania. It is part of Northeastern Pennsylvania. The population was 1,163 at the 2020 census. History The Patterson Covered Bridge No. 112 was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. Geography Orange Township is located just north of the center of Columbia County and surrounds the borough of Orangeville, a separate municipality. According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of , of which is land and , or 1.18%, is water. Fishing Creek, a tributary of the Susquehanna River, crosses the township from east to west and forms part of the southwestern boundary. Knob Mountain forms part of the township boundary in the east. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 1,148 people, 435 households, and 344 families residing in the township. The population density was . There were 532 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the township was 99.6 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
