Williamsport, Pennsylvania Williamsport City of Williamsport West 4th Street in Downtown Williamsport (2014) West 4th Street in Downtown Williamsport (2014) Map of Lycoming County, Pennsylvania highlighting Williamsport Map of Lycoming County, Pennsylvania highlighting Williamsport Williamsport is positioned in Pennsylvania Williamsport - Williamsport Williamsport is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, United States. In 2009, the populace was estimated at 29,304.
It is the principal town/city of the Williamsport, Pennsylvania Metropolitan Statistical Area, which has a populace of about 117,000.
Williamsport was settled by Americans late in the 18th century, and the town began to prosper due to its lumber industry.
Williamsport is the place of birth of Little League Baseball.
South Williamsport, a town nearby, is the command posts of Little League Baseball and annually hosts the Little League World Series in late summer.
Main article: History of Williamsport, Pennsylvania Colonial settlement in what is today Williamsport dates back to 1786 but the region was previously inhabited by the Iroquois.
Williamsport was incorporated as a borough on March 1, 1806, and as a town/city on January 15, 1866.
In the late 19th century, Williamsport was known as "The Lumber Capital of the World" because of its grow lumber industry.
In 1786 the first home was assembled in Williamsport.
James Russell assembled his inn on what is now the corner of East Third and Mulberry Streets in downtown. On April 13, 1795 Lycoming County was formed from Northumberland County.
It encompassed all the lands of Northumberland County situated west of Muncy Hills and was a domain of 12,500 square miles (32,000 km2), comprising most of north central Pennsylvania. In 1796 the first recorded childbirth in Williamsport was James Russell the son of Mr.
William Russell and grandson of James Russell of the Russell Inn and the first school was assembled as a one-room log addition to the building that would eventually turn into the first Lycoming County Courthouse. In 1798 the first brick home in Williamsport was erected on Front Street, between Market and Mulberry, by Andrew Tulloh, a lawyer.
In May 1835, the first enhance schools opened in Williamsport and also the town's first bank, the West Branch National Bank. The Park Hotel in Williamsport, c.
Williamsport Home for the Friendless, c.
The following year the Williamsport Hospital opened its first facility April 1 at Elmira and Edwin Streets. In 1881 a state law ended ethnic segregation in Pennsylvania schools.
Williamsport was the place of birth of the nationwide journal Grit in 1882.
Williamsport once had more millionaires per-capita than anywhere else in the world. For this reason, the area's small-town high school, the Williamsport Area High School, uses "Millionaires" as its team nickname.
Downtown Williamsport On June 6, 1939 the first Little League Baseball game was played on a sandlot outside Bowman Field in Williamsport.
Williamsport native Joe Lockard, stationed on Oahu, gave warning of the impending attack based on radar readings.
His readings were dismissed as American B17 bombers coming in from the mainland. Also in 1941 the Williamsport School Board created the Williamsport Technical Institute for high school and post-high school students.
It interval into the Williamsport Area Community College, and later became Pennsylvania College of Technology. Downtown and the Genetti Hotel as seen from neighboring South Williamsport Williamsport is positioned at 41 14 40 N 77 1 7 W (41.244428, 77.018738), and is bordered by the West Branch Susquehanna River to the south (with Armstrong Township, South Williamsport, Duboistown and Susquehanna Township south of the river), Loyalsock Township to the east and north, Old Lycoming Township to the north and Woodward Township to the west. As the crow flies, Lycoming County is about 130 miles (209 km) northwest of Philadelphia and 165 miles (266 km) east-northeast of Pittsburgh.
The Peter Herdic House, Hart Building, Millionaire's Row Historic District, City Hall, Williamsport Armory, and Old City Hall are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Neighborhoods of Williamsport include: Park Avenue, south of Williamsport Hospital According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 9.5 square miles (25 km2).
Williamsport has a humid continental climate (Koppen Dfa), typical of central Pennsylvania, with four distinct seasons, and lies in USDA hardiness zone 6b, with areas away from the West Branch Susquehanna River falling in zone 6a. Winters are cold and comparatively dry but typically bring a mix of rain, sleet, and snow with occasional heavy snow flurry and icing.
January is the coldest month with an average mean temperature of 26.8 F ( 2.9 C), with temperatures on average dropping to or below 0 F ( 18 C) on 2.8 days and staying at or below freezing on 29 days per year. Snowfall averages 36.0 inches (91 cm) per season. The snowiest month on record was 40.1 inches (102 cm) in January 1987, while winter snow flurry amounts have ranged from 85.9 in (218 cm) in 1995 96 to 7.0 in (18 cm) in 1988 89. Summers are typically very warm and humid with temperatures exceeding 90 F (32 C) on 15 days per year on average; the annual count has been as high as 42 days in 1988, while only 1907 and 1979 did not reach that mark. July is the warmest month with an average mean temperature of 72.7 F (23 C). The all-time record high temperature in Williamsport of 106 F (41 C) was established on July 9, 1936, which occurred amid the Dust Bowl, and the all-time record low temperature of 20 F ( 29 C) was set on January 21, 1994. The first and last freezes of the season on average fall on October 16 and April 30, in the order given, allowing a burgeoning season of 168 days. The normal annual mean temperature is 50.4 F (10.2 C). Normal annual rain based on the 30-year average from 1981 2010 is 41.28 inches (1,049 mm), falling on an average 133 days. Monthly rain has ranged from 16.80 in (427 mm) in June 1972 (due to heavy rainfall from Hurricane Agnes) to 0.16 in (4.1 mm) in September 1943, while for annual rain the historical range is 70.26 in (1,785 mm) in 2011 to 27.68 in (703 mm) in 1930. Climate data for Williamsport Regional Airport, Pennsylvania (1981 2010 normals, extremes 1895 present) Williamsport Metropolitan Travel Destination The black dot shows the locale of Williamsport Williamsport City Hall, formerly the United State Post Office Williamsport is the larger principal town/city of the Williamsport-Lock Haven CSA, a Combined Travel Destination that includes the Williamsport urbane region (Lycoming County) and the Lock Haven micropolitan region (Clinton County), which had a combined populace of 157,958 at the 2000 census. See also: List of Mayors of Williamsport, Pennsylvania Williamsport operates on a "Strong Mayor" form of government, meaning the mayor is given almost total administrative authority and a clear, wide range of political independence with the power to appoint and dismiss department heads without council approval and little need for enhance input.
Williamsport is positioned in Pennsylvania's 23rd senatorial District, Pennsylvania's 83rd House District, and Pennsylvania's 10th congressional district.
The Weightman Block in downtown Williamsport was assembled by Peter Herdic Williamsport's top ten employers are Susquehanna Health, the Pennsylvania State Government, the Pennsylvania College of Technology, Williamsport Area School District, Brodart Company, Springs Window Fashions, Weis Markets, West Pharmaceuticals, Shop Vac Corporation, and Textron Lycoming Engines. Williamsport is noted for the Lycoming airplane engines which is a division of Avco Corporation and a subsidiary of Textron.
Brodart, a library supplies company, is also based in Williamsport.
Shop-Vac is headquartered in the Newberry section of Williamsport and manufactures wet/dry vacuums and accessories for consumer, industrial, commercial and contractor uses.
Overhead Garage Door is also positioned in Newberry. Bethlehem Wire Rope, a 46-acre (190,000 m2) manufacturing complex in Williamsport, with over 620,000 square feet (58,000 m2) under roof, is the single biggest wire rope manufacturing facility in North America.[unreliable source?] Recently, interest has grown in extracting natural gas in the Williamsport area. Williamsport has turn into a key region in the Marcellus Shale drilling. The Williamsport Downtown Gateway Revitalization Project began in 2004 in order to attract more citizens (both people of the Williamsport improve and visitors) to the Downtown Williamsport area. The assembly on the Carl E.
Williamsport is the home of Lycoming College and Pennsylvania College of Technology, The Commonwealth Medical College, as well as Barone Beauty School and Empire Beauty School.
There is also a closing education center of Pennsylvania State University positioned in Williamsport.
Williamsport Area School District consists of: Williamsport Area Middle School Williamsport Area High School Williamsport Area School District has a famous music program, ranked in the Top 100 in the country. Private schools in the region include West Branch School, Mountain View Christian School and Williamsport Christian School and a several Catholic schools in Lycoming County are run by Saint John Neumann Regional Academy. Brown Library is Williamsport's enhance library.
The library has a staff of nearly 50 full and part-time employees, and offers volunteer opportunities for youth and grownups. With a compilation of nearly 150,000 units it offers books, DVDs, CDs, and other resources, while the library offers wireless Internet access, small-town history archives, the Lycoming County Law Library, and premium online reference resources.
The Pennsylvania Department of Education, the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Bureau of Library Development funds the statewide online resource "Ask Here PA", a no-charge chat service that provides Williamsport and other Pennsylvania library patrons with access to 24/7 reference support.
Lycoming College's Snowden Library and the Pennsylvania College of Technology's Madigan Library are also positioned in Williamsport.
Williamsport Regional Medical Center Muncy Valley Hospital (located east of Williamsport in Muncy) Williamsport Regional Medical Center was recognized as one of the 2011 Thomson Reuters 50 Top Heart Hospitals in the nation. See also: Transportation in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania Williamsport station c.
Williamsport Regional Airport (IPT), positioned several miles east of the town/city in the borough of Montoursville, has two flights daily to Philadelphia via American Eagle (as of October 2016). Susquehanna Trailways provides daily long distance bus service from a station in the downtown to Elmira, New York, Harrisburg, New York City, and Philadelphia. Local bus service inside Williamsport and to other places in Lycoming County is offered by River Valley Transit. Williamsport is served by a several major highways, including Interstate 180, U.S.
I-180 and US 220 run together northeast/southwest through Williamsport, and US 15 joins (in the opposite direction) for two miles. Once completed, Interstate 99 will enter Williamsport from the southwest on US 220 and continue north on US 15, joining only one at a time.
There is no passenger rail service, but, until the mid-20th century, Williamsport was a primary transfer point between the Pennsylvania Railroad, Reading Railroad, and New York Central Railroad and direct passenger services were provided to New York City, Buffalo, Harrisburg, Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia.
Freight rail service (west to Avis and east to Muncy) is provided by the Lycoming Valley Railroad, which has its chief yard in the Newberry section of Williamsport, and offers connections to the Norfolk Southern and Canadian Pacific barns s. The West Branch Susquehanna River is not navigable, but a dam at Hepburn Street provides a large lake for recreational boating, including outings on the mock paddlewheeler Hiawatha from Susquehanna State Park. Williamsport has one experienced baseball team, the Williamsport Crosscutters, a minor league baseball club with the New York Penn League, and a semi-professional football team, the Williamsport Wildcats, registered with the GEFA The Little League World Series is held annually on the south side of the West Branch Susquehanna River in South Williamsport, where Little League Baseball now has its headquarters.
Local newspapers include the Williamsport Sun Gazette, Webb Weekly and The Williamsport Guardian.
Williamsport has an all-sports station, ESPN (AM) (1500 k - Hz).
Williamsport is ranked #260 by Arbitron in terms of its radio market.
Local online media includes Williamsport - LIVE, Connect Williamsport, Lycoming County Kids (local kid's activities), Williamsport.com (directory), and the City of Williamsport Facebook page (social media) and the Downtown Williamsport Facebook page (social media).
TV stations in Williamsport are served by the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre market.
Radio stations in the Williamsport, Pennsylvania market Israel Ma'ale Adumim, Williamsport became a sister town/city to Ma'ale Adumim in 2010, an Israeli settlement in the West Bank Panoramic view of South Willamsport, Duboistown and Williamsport from the River Walk on top of the flood control levee.
Bald Eagle Mountain, West Branch Susquehanna River, Hepburn Street Dam on the left, center is River Walk path, Lycoming Valley Railroad, Interstate 180 and town/city skyline, right is Market Street Bridge over the river.
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