Dunmore, Pennsylvania Dunmore Dunmore is positioned in Pennsylvania Dunmore - Dunmore Location of Dunmore in Pennsylvania Dunmore is a borough in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, adjoining Scranton.
Dunmore was settled in 1835 and incorporated in 1862.
Dunmore is one of the various villages which sprang from the initial township of Providence, Pennsylvania.
In 1783, William Allsworth, a shoemaker by trade, who had visited the Connecticut territory at Wyoming for the purpose of selecting a place for his home the year before, reached the point at evening, where he encamped and lit his fire in the forest where Dunmore was founded.
In the summer of 1795, Charles Dolph, John Carey, and John West began the workforce of clearing and plowing lands in the neighborhood of Bucktown or Corners, as this region was long called after the first foot-path from Blakeley to the Roaring Brook crossed the Wyoming road at Allsworth's.
The external aspect of Dunmore promised so much by its agricultural expectations in 1813, that Dr.
The populace of Dunmore and Blakeley, doubling in numbers and increasing in wealth, warranted Stephen Tripp in erecting a saw and grist foundry in 1820, on the Roaring Brook half a mile south of the village.
By 1875, the township of Providence was dissolved and the territory split up into various lesser boroughs and suburbs with Dunmore being one of them.
Today, Dunmore is a borough bordering the town/city of Scranton.
The name Dunmore comes from Dunmore Park, in the Falkirk region of Scotland (home of the Dunmore Pineapple).
Dunmore is positioned at 41 25 3 N 75 37 28 W (41.417530, -75.624432). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the borough has a total region of 9 square miles (23 km2), of which, 8.9 square miles (23 km2) of it is territory and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km2) of it (1.11%) is water.
Roaring Brook flows from the southeast and turns west through the Nay Aug Gorge in Dunmore to the Lackawanna River in Scranton.
Most of the borough is drained by Roaring Brook, except for an region in the west drained by Meadow Brook into the Lackawanna River.
Dunmore Scranton Roaring Brook Township Roaring Brook Township As of the 2010 United States Census, there were 14,057 citizens , 5,999 homeholds, and 3,388 families residing in the borough. The populace density was 1,579.4 citizens per square mile (610/km ).
In the borough the populace was spread out, with 17.9% under the age of 18, 62.1% from 18 to 64, and 20% who were 65 years of age or older.
Gertrude Hawk Chocolates, established in 1936, is based in Dunmore.
Keystone Sanitary Landfill, the biggest landfill in the state of Pennsylvania has been positioned in Dunmore since 1973, about 450 feet from the Dunmore Reservoir #1, a backup drinking waterworks.
In November 2014, the Dunmore borough council allowed a $15.63 million agreement for Keystone as a basis for an extension, and a definition of the landfill as a "pre-existing landfill" to ensure Keystone a more favorable interpretation of the borough's zoning ordinance against enhance opinion. Dunmore has four schools, Dunmore High School, Holy Cross High School (formerly known as Bishop O'Hara High School), Dunmore Elementary Center, and Saint Mary's of Mount Carmel Elementary School.
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"Pennsylvania: Population and Housing Unit Counts" (PDF).
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Dunmore travel guide from Wikivoyage Borough of Dunmore Municipalities and communities of Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, United States
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