Warren, Pennsylvania Warren City of Warren Warren Municipal Building, July 2012 Warren Municipal Building, July 2012 Etymology: General Joseph Warren Location of Pennsylvania in the United States Location of Pennsylvania in the United States Warren is positioned in Pennsylvania Warren - Warren Location of Warren inside Pennsylvania Country United States State Pennsylvania County Warren County Warren is a town/city in Warren County, Pennsylvania, United States, positioned along the Allegheny River.
It is the governmental center of county of Warren County. It is home to the command posts of the Allegheny National Forest and the Cornplanter State Forest.
Warren is the principal town/city of the Warren, PA Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Warren was initially inhabited by Native Americans of the Seneca nation.
It was titled after Major General Joseph Warren. The first permanent structure in Warren, a storehouse assembled by the Holland Land Company, was instead of in 1796.
David Beaty identified petroleum in Warren in 1875 while drilling for natural gas in his wife's flower garden.
In recent years, Warren has struggled through difficult economic times and a steady diminish in populace (after peaking at nearly 15,000 inhabitants in 1940), but the town/city is attempting to bounce back with the Impact Warren project, a riverfront evolution universal in downtown Warren.
Major employers include Walmart, the United Refining Company (gas supplier for Kwik Fill and Red Apple Food Mart gas stations), Allegheny National Forest, Northwest Savings Bank, Whirley-Drinkworks, Superior Tire and Rubber Corporation, Pennsylvania General Energy, Betts Industries, Inc, Blair Corporation, Sheetz, and Interlectric.
The Warren Historic District, A.J.
Jefferson House, Struthers Library Building, Warren Armory, Warren County Courthouse, Wetmore House, Guy Irvine House ("The Locusts") and Woman's Club of Warren are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Warren is positioned at 41 50 39 N 79 8 33 W (41.844133, -79.142443). The town/city is positioned at the confluence of the Allegheny River and the Conewango Creek.
The Conewango Creek flows between New York State and Warren, and the Allegheny Reservoir and Kinzua Dam are nearby.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 3.1 square miles (8.0 km2), of which 2.9 square miles (7.5 km2) is territory and 0.2 square miles (0.52 km2) (6.11%) is water.
The Allegheny River from the Kinzua Dam to the City of Warren has been designated a "Recreational Waterway" by the United States Congress.
Climate data for Warren, Pennsylvania As of the census of 2000, there were 10,259 citizens , 4,565 homeholds, and 2,606 families residing in the city.
There were 5,046 housing units at an average density of 1,725.6 per square mile (667.2/km ).
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 98.53% White, 0.20% African American, 0.20% Native American, 0.36% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 0.13% from other competitions, and 0.56% from two or more competitions.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 23.1% under the age of 18, 7.0% from 18 to 24, 28.4% from 25 to 44, 23.4% from 45 to 64, and 18.1% who were 65 years of age or older.
About 8.0% of families and 10.7% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 11.5% of those under age 18 and 6.0% of those age 65 or over.
Gudrun Ensslin, founder member of German terrorist group the Red Army Faction, spent a year in the United States aged eighteen, where she attended high school in Warren.
She graduated in the Honor Group at Warren High School in 1959.
Johnny Cash co-wrote and sang "As Long as the Grass Shall Grow", about the loss of Seneca country land due to the assembly of the Kinzua Dam 6 miles east (10 km) of Warren, on his October, 1964 album Bitter Tears.
Warren was one of the featured locations in History's Revelation: The End of Days.
No actual recording took place in Warren.
In a 2016 episode of "Limitless" Warren was the featured location.
No actual recording took place in Warren.
Report By the Commission to Locate the Site of the Frontier Forts of Pennsylvania.
By means of Chatauqua creek, a portage, Chautauqua Lake and Conewango creek, they came on the 29th, to the Allegheny river, near the point now occupied by the town of Warren, in Warren County, Pa.
"Profile for Warren, Pennsylvania".
"Warren, PA Monthly weather forecast".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Number of Inhabitants: Pennsylvania" (PDF).
18th Enumeration of the United States.
"Pennsylvania: Population and Housing Unit Counts" (PDF).
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