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Counties in Pennsylvania's Piedmont Plateau. Pennsylvania's Piedmont region is a heavily agricultural section of the Piedmont Plateau located in Southeastern Pennsylvania. It consists of the following Pennsylvania counties: Adams. Berks. Bucks. Chester. Cumberland. Dauphin.
42-46344. McMurray is a census-designated place (CDP) in Peters Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania. The population was 4,736 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Pittsburgh metropolitan area. Its zip code is 15317, which it shares with neighboring borough Canonsburg .
Etymology Pittsburgh was named in 1758, by General John Forbes, in honor of British statesman William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham. As Forbes was a Scotsman, he probably pronounced the name / ˈ p ɪ t s b ər ə / PITS -bər-ə (similar to Edinburgh). Pittsburgh was incorporated as a borough on April 22, 1794, with the following Act: "Be it enacted by the Pennsylvania State Senate and ...
Californians waking up to the news that an earthquake measuring 4.8 on the Richter scale rattled buildings and nerves in New Jersey and across much of the East Coast Friday morning, but caused no ...
Rochester, New York is the ninth-largest city in the Northeast and the 112th-largest city in the United States. It had a population of 211,328 in 2020. The Rochester metro has a population of 1,090,135. Worcester, Massachusetts is the tenth-largest city in the Northeast and the 114th-largest city in the United States.
The main thoroughfares in Peters Township are U.S. Route 19 heading north and south, and East McMurray Road heading east and west. Communities. Peters Township is made up of two sub-communities. These are: McMurray, to the north-western direction, and; Venetia, to the south-eastern direction. Surrounding neighborhoods
Canonsburg is a borough in Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States, 18 miles (29 km) southwest of Pittsburgh. The population was 9,735 at the 2020 census. [5] Canonsburg was laid out by Colonel John Canon in 1789 and incorporated in 1802. The town lies in a rich coal district, and most of the town's work force once worked in local steel ...
Reading (/ ˈ r ɛ d ɪ ŋ / RED-ing; Pennsylvania German: Reddin) is a city in and the county seat of Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States.The city had a population of 95,112 at the 2020 census and is the fourth-largest city in Pennsylvania after Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Allentown.