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Woodward, Pennsylvania
Woodward is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Haines Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is part of the State College, Pennsylvania, Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 110 at the 2010 census. Geography Woodward is located in eastern Centre County at (40.898773, -77.354439), east of the center of Haines Township. It is at the eastern end of Penns Valley at the northern base of Woodward Mountain and Sand Mountain. Pennsylvania Route 45 passes through the town, leading east to Mifflinburg and west to Millheim. According to the United States Census Bureau, the Woodward CDP has a total area of , all land. Demographics At the 2000 census there were 126 people, 61 households, and 38 families living in the CDP. The population density was . There were 69 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the CDP was 99.21% White, 0.79% from other races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3.97%. There ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Census-designated Place
A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), 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 as self-governing city (United States), cities, town (United States), towns, and village (United States), villages, for the purposes of gathering and correlating statistical data. CDPs are populated areas that generally include one officially designated but currently unincorporated area, unincorporated community, for which the CDP is named, plus surrounding inhabited countryside of varying dimensions and, occasionally, other, smaller unincorporated communities as well. CDPs include small rural communities, Edge city, edge cities, colonia (United States), colonias located along the Mexico–United States border, and unincorporated resort and retirement community, retirement communities and their environs. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poverty Line
The poverty threshold, poverty limit, poverty line, or breadline is the minimum level of income deemed adequate in a particular country. The poverty line is usually calculated by estimating the total cost of one year's worth of necessities for the average adult.Poverty Lines – Martin Ravallion, in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd Edition, London: Palgrave Macmillan The cost of housing, such as the renting, rent for an apartment, usually makes up the largest proportion of this estimate, so economists track the real estate market and other housing cost indicators as a major influence on the poverty line. Individual factors are often used to account for various circumstances, such as whether one is a parent, elderly, a child, married, etc. The poverty threshold may be adjusted annually. In practice, like the definition of poverty, the official or common understanding of the poverty line is significantly higher in developed country, developed countries than in developi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Millheim, Pennsylvania
Millheim is a borough in Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is part of the State College, Pennsylvania Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 904 at the 2010 census. The Millheim Historic District, which includes 176 contributing buildings, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. Geography Millheim is located at (40.890981, -77.475954). According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of , all land. The town was named for having a millhouse situated along Elk Creek; the town still features the mill's raceway, which flows through the downtown area. Climate Demographics As of the census of 2010, there were 904 people, 377 households, and 251 families residing in the borough. The population density was . There were 417 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the borough was 98.2% White, 0.1% Black or African American, 0.1% Native American, 0.1% other, and 1.5% from two or mor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mifflinburg, Pennsylvania
Mifflinburg is a borough in Union County, located in the Susquehanna River Valley of central Pennsylvania, United States. In 1792, Mifflinburg was settled by Elias and Catharina Youngman and 8 other families, many of them German, and the village of Mifflinsburgh (now Mifflinburg) was formed. It was named for Thomas Mifflin, who was governor of Pennsylvania and first governor under the PA Constitution of 1790, and a signer of the U.S. Constitution. Youngmanstown was another name based upon common nemonclature only, but not officially. In 1827, Mifflinburg, a.k.a. Youngmanstown, and another town adjacent to the east named Greenville, a.k.a. Rhodestown, (common nemoncloture), were combined and incorporated into a borough. The first horse drawn buggy and carriage manufacturing company was established in 1845; and Mifflinburg would become the Buggy and carriage manufacturing capital of the United States in the late 19th century. There are many Victorian homes and downtown business bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penns Valley
Penns Valley is an eroded anticlinal valley of the Pennsylvania ridge and valley geologic region of the Appalachian Mountain range. The valley is located in southern Centre County, Pennsylvania. Along with the Nittany Valley to the north and east, it is part of the larger Nittany Anticlinorium. It is bordered by Mount Nittany to the north, the Seven Mountains range to the south, and connects to the larger Nittany Valley to the west. There are two smaller subordinate valleys typically associated with the greater valley: Georges Valley in the south, separated by Egg Hill, and Brush Valley in the north, separated by Brush Mountain. History The Appalachian Mountain chain was formed starting around 420 million years ago with the collision of the North American craton and the Iapetus Ocean and culminating with the collision of the modern-day eastern seaboard of the then Euramerican continent with Africa, then Gondwana, about 290 million years ago forming the supercontinent Pange ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Census Bureau
The United States Census Bureau, officially the Bureau of the Census, is a principal agency of the Federal statistical system, U.S. federal statistical system, responsible for producing data about the American people and American economy, economy. The U.S. Census Bureau is part of the United States Department of Commerce, U.S. Department of Commerce and its Director of the United States Census Bureau, director is appointed by the president of the United States. Currently, Ron S. Jarmin is the acting director of the U.S. Census Bureau. The Census Bureau's primary mission is conducting the United States census, U.S. census every ten years, which allocates the seats of the United States House of Representatives, U.S. House of Representatives to the U.S. state, states based on their population. The bureau's various censuses and surveys help allocate over $675 billion in federal funds every year and it assists states, local communities, and businesses in making informed decisions. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
State College, Pennsylvania
State College is a Borough (Pennsylvania), borough and Home rule municipality (Pennsylvania), home rule municipality in Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a college town, home to the University Park, Pennsylvania, University Park campus of Pennsylvania State University, The Pennsylvania State University. State College is the largest designated borough in Pennsylvania. It is the principal borough of the six municipalities that make up the Happy Valley (Pennsylvania), State College area, the largest settlement in Centre County, Pennsylvania, Centre County and one of the principal cities of the greater State College–DuBois, PA Combined Statistical Area, State College-DuBois Combined Statistical Area with a combined population of 236,577 as of the 2010 United States census, 2010 U.S. census. In the 2010 census, the borough population was 42,034. History Indigenous peoples The Lenape, Delaware, Iroquois, Mingo, and Shawnee were some of the first native inhabitants w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geographic Names Information System
The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is a database of name and location information about more than two million physical and cultural features, encompassing the United States and its territories; the Compact of Free Association, associated states of the Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, and Palau; and Antarctica. It is a type of gazetteer. It was developed by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) in cooperation with the United States Board on Geographic Names (BGN) to promote the standardization of feature names. Data were collected in two phases. Although a third phase was considered, which would have handled name changes where local usages differed from maps, it was never begun. The database is part of a system that includes topographic map names and bibliographic references. The names of books and historic maps that confirm the feature or place name are cited. Variant names, alternatives to official federal names for a feature, are also recor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
