Tinicum Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania
Tinicum Township, Delaware County, Location in Delaware County and the state of Pennsylvania Location in Delaware County and the state of Pennsylvania Tinicum Township, more popularly known as "Tinicum Island" or "The Island", is a township in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States.
The global terminal, the end of the airfield, and runways 9 - L/27 - R and 9 - R/27 - L of Philadelphia International Airport are positioned in Tinicum Township.
Tinicum Township has the distinct ion of being the site of the first recorded European settlement in Pennsylvania.
The initial Lenape called the place Tin-eek Unk. The township is the site of the Philadelphia Lazaretto. It and the Printzhof are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Tinicum Township is positioned in southeastern Delaware County at 39 52 8 N 75 17 17 W (39.868962, -75.288273). It is bordered to the south by the Delaware River, to the west and northwest by Darby Creek, and to the northeast by the town/city of Philadelphia.
The township borders the state of New Jersey at the center of the Delaware River.
The unincorporated improve of Essington is in the part of the township, and Lester is directly to its east.
The part of Philadelphia International Airport takes up nearly all of the center and easterly parts of the township.
The John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge lies along Darby Creek on the northwestern side of the township.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the township has a total region of 8.8 square miles (22.7 km2), of which 5.8 square miles (14.9 km2) is territory and 3.0 square miles (7.8 km2), or 34.33%, is water. As of the census of 2000, there were 4,353 citizens , 1,749 homeholds, and 1,136 families residing in the township.
The ethnic makeup of the township was 89.08% White, 4.80% Black or African American, 0.07% Native American, 0.44% Asian, 0.32% from other competitions, and 0.29% from two or more competitions.
In the township the populace was spread out, with 23.3% under the age of 18, 7.2% from 18 to 24, 31.5% from 25 to 44, 22.6% from 45 to 64, and 15.4% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the township was $42,910, and the median income for a family was $49,129.
Tinicum Township is part of the Interboro School District.
Tinicum School and Interboro High School serve the township.
All-State Career School has two campuses in the Tinicum Township, in Lester and Essington. Employers who maintain worksites in Pennsylvania or employ individuals who may work from their homes are required to withhold applicable Earned Income Tax (EIT) from those employees. This is a result of Act 32, which merged the tax collecting entities for the state of Pennsylvania. The current Earned Income tax rate for Tinicum Township workers is 1.0%. This tax must be withheld from employee pay and paid to the representative of the small-town tax collector, Keystone Collections Group. The stromboli is reported by Peter Romano to have originated in 1950 in Tinicum Township at Romano's Italian Restaurant & Pizzeria, by his grandfather Nazzareno Romano.
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Tinicum township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania".
History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania (Henry Graham Ashmead.
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