Bloomsburg Sullivan Railroad Jamison City Train Station 02

Jamison City is a

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Sugarloaf Township, Columbia County, Pennsylvania Sugarloaf Township is a township in Columbia County, Pennsylvania. It is part of Northeastern Pennsylvania. The population was eight hundred and ninety at the time of the 2020 census. History The Y Covered Bridge No. 156 was listed on the Na ...

, United States. It is part of

Northeastern Pennsylvania Northeastern Pennsylvania (NEPA or Nepa) is a region of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania that includes the Pocono Mountains, the Endless Mountains, and the industrial cities of Scranton (the area's largest city), Wilkes-Barre, Pittston, Ha ...

. The population was 111 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Bloomsburg-Berwick micropolitan area.

Geography

Jamison City is located at (41.301523, -76.366443), in the northern reaches of Columbia County. It is in northern Sugarloaf Township and is bordered on the north by Davidson Township in Sullivan County. According to the

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, the CDP has a total area of , all land. The CDP is situated on mostly level terrain, and surrounded on the north, east, and west by mountains. The East Branch of Fishing Creek runs through Jamison City.

History

Bloomsburg and Sullivan Railroad Jamison City station

Jamison City was formed at the northern terminus of the

Bloomsburg and Sullivan Railroad The Bloomsburg and Sullivan Railroad, (e.1888-d.1972) also called the B & S Railroad, was a long-lived independent shortline railroad that existed under that name operating independently from 1888 to 1928As stated in the article, the railroad e ...

. In 1889 a

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was built in Jamison City. However, it stopped producing wood in 1912, and the final load of lumber from it was shipped to Bloomsburg in 1914. A

tannery Tanning, or hide tanning, is the process of treating skins and hides of animals to produce leather. A tannery is the place where the skins are processed. Historically, vegetable based tanning used tannin, an acidic chemical compound derived fr ...

was built in Jamison City, but it was closed in 1925.

Demographics

As of the

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of 2000, there were 102 people, 46 households, and 28 families residing in the CDP. The population density was . There were 96 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the CDP was 100.00%

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. There were 46 households, out of which 23.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 50.0% were

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living together, 6.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 39.1% were non-families. 30.4% of all households were made up of individuals, and 21.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.22 and the average family size was 2.79. In the CDP, the population was spread out, with 19.6% under the age of 18, 7.8% from 18 to 24, 34.3% from 25 to 44, 12.7% from 45 to 64, and 25.5% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 40 years. For every 100 females, there were 100.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 110.3 males. The median income for a household in the CDP was $36,250, and the median income for a family was $36,250. Males had a median income of $35,000 versus $20,156 for females. The

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for the CDP was $17,873. There were 6.3% of families and 4.2% of the population living below the

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, including 12.0% of under eighteens and none of those over 64.

Education

The school district is

Benton Area School District The Benton Area School District is a small, rural public school district in Columbia County, Pennsylvania. Benton Area School District serves the boroughs of Benton and Stillwater and Benton Township, Fishing Creek Township, Jackson Town ...

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/ref> The district's schools are L.R. Appleman Elementary School and Benton Middle-Senior High School.

References

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