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  1. The following is a list of the 67 counties of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The city of Philadelphia is coterminous with Philadelphia County, the municipalities having been consolidated in 1854, and all remaining county government functions having been merged into the city after a 1951 referendum. [1] [2] Eight of the ten most populous ...

    • Centre County

      History. The lands of the future Centre County were first...

    • Clearfield County

      History Clearfield, the county seat. Clearfield County was...

    • Rhode Island

      This is a list of the five counties in the U.S. state of...

    • South Carolina

      The U.S. state of South Carolina is made up of 46 counties,...

    • Adams County

      Adams County is a county in the Commonwealth of...

  2. West Chester. 1682. One of the original counties at the formation of Pennsylvania. The English city of Chester in the county of Cheshire. 534,413. 760 sq mi. ( 1,968 km 2) Clarion County. 031.

  3. History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania: With biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men (Closson Press, 1883) online; Henderson, Rodger C. "Demographic patterns and family structure in eighteenth-century Lancaster County, Pennsylvania." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 114.3 (1990): 349-383. online

  4. Local government in Pennsylvania is government below the state level in Pennsylvania. There are six types of local governments listed in the Pennsylvania Constitution: county, township, borough, town, city, and school district. [1] [2] All of Pennsylvania is included in one of the state's 67 counties, which are in total subdivided into 2,560 ...

  5. Wyoming Valley is a region of Northeastern Pennsylvania shaped like a crescent and part of the ridge-and-valley or folded Appalachians, which includes the metropolitan areas of Scranton and Wilkes-Barre . Consisting of the following counties: Luzerne. Lackawanna. Wyoming.

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