Marienville is an
unincorporated community
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and
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 counte ...
(CDP) in
Jenks Township,
Forest County,
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a U.S. state, state spanning the Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern United States, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes region, Great Lakes regions o ...
, United States. Its altitude is , and it is located at (41.4702014, -79.1247623). Other names for the community have included "Marion" and "Marionville". Marienville is a major point on a well-known ATV trail. According to the
2010 census the population of Marienville was 3,137.
Marienville is the location of the
SCI Forest state penitentiary.
Geography
The community is in southeastern Forest County near the center of Jenks Township.
Pennsylvania Route 66 is the main street, leading northeast to
U.S. Route 6
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at
Kane and southwest to
Interstate 80
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near
Clarion
Clarion may refer to:
Music
* Clarion (instrument), a type of trumpet used in the Middle Ages
* The Register (music), register of a clarinet that ranges from B4 to C6
* A Trumpet (organ stop), trumpet organ stop that usually plays an octave abov ...
.
Pennsylvania Route 899 leads south from Marienville to
Clarington
Clarington (Canada 2021 Census, 2021 population 101,427) is a lower-tier municipality in the Regional Municipality of Durham in Ontario, Canada. It was incorporated in 1973 as the town of Newcastle with the merging of the town of Bowmanville, the ...
.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Marienville CDP has a total area of , all land.
Demographics
References
{{Forest County, Pennsylvania
Census-designated places in Forest County, Pennsylvania