Honey Brook, Pennsylvania Honey Brook Borough Honey Brook Chesco Chester County Pennsylvania incorporated and unincorporated areas Honey Brook highlighted.svg Location in Chester County and the state of Pennsylvania.
Location of Pennsylvania in the United States Honey Brook is a borough positioned in Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States.
The populace of the borough was 1,713 at the 2010 census.
The borough is surrounded by Honey Brook Township, and both are referred to locally collectively as Honey Brook.
Honey Brook Township was divided from Nantmeal Township in 1789.
The inhabitants changed the name to Honey Brook in 1884.
Honey Brook is an incorrect English translation of the Welsh Nantmel, a village in Radnorshire, now part of Powys.
Honey Brook was incorporated as a borough in 1891.
Hence, the name was changed from Waynesburg to Honey Brook.
With the incorporation as a borough, the chief enigma to overcome were: street lighting, sidewalks, and a several years later, water.
When the borough was incorporated, the census was around 600.
The earliest organization in Honey Brook Borough is the United Methodist Church.
Honey Brook is positioned at 40 5 39 N 75 54 35 W (40.094260, -75.909799). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the borough has a total region of 0.5 square miles (1.3 km2), all of it land.
The borough lies on a ridge between the headwaters of the east and west chapters of the Brandywine Creek.
In the borough the populace was spread out, with 29.6% under the age of 18, 8.6% from 18 to 24, 33.5% from 25 to 44, 15.8% from 45 to 64, and 12.5% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the borough was $46,319, and the median income for a family was $56,417.
Honey Brook is part of the Twin Valley School District.
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Incorporated Places and Minor Civil Divisions Datasets: Subcounty Resident Population Estimates: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2012".
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Populated places established in 1815 - Boroughs in Chester County, Pennsylvania - 1891 establishments in Pennsylvania
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