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Name | Northumberland |
Alt names | Northumberland | source: Getty Vocabulary Program |
Type | County |
Coordinates | 41.117°N 76.867°W |
Located in | Pennsylvania, United States (1772 - ) |
See also | Armstrong, Pennsylvania, United States | Child county (source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990) | | Centre, Pennsylvania, United States | Child county (source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990) | | Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States | Child county (source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990) | | Mifflin, Pennsylvania, United States | Child county (source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990) | | Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, United States | Child county (source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990) | | Union, Pennsylvania, United States | Child county (source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990) | | Venango, Pennsylvania, United States | Child county (source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990) | | Warren, Pennsylvania, United States | Child county (source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990) |
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Northumberland County is a county located in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 91,647. Its county seat is Sunbury.
The county was formed in 1772 from parts of Lancaster, Berks, Bedford, Cumberland, and Northampton Counties and named for the county of Northumberland in northern England. Northumberland County is a fifth class county according to the Pennsylvania's County Code. Northumberland County comprises the Sunbury, Pennsylvania Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Bloomsburg-Berwick-Sunbury, PA Combined Statistical Area. Among its notable residents, Joseph Priestley, the Enlightenment chemist and theologian, left England in 1796 due to religious persecution and settled on the Susquehanna River. His former house (originally purchased by chemists from Pennsylvania State University after a colloquium that founded the American Chemical Society) is a historical museum.
Timeline
Population History
- source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
Census Year | Population
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1790 | 17,161
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1800 | 27,797
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1810 | 36,327
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1820 | 15,424
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1830 | 18,133
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1840 | 20,027
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1850 | 23,272
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1860 | 28,922
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1870 | 41,444
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1880 | 53,123
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1890 | 74,698
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1900 | 90,911
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1910 | 111,420
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1920 | 122,079
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1930 | 128,504
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1940 | 126,887
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1950 | 117,115
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1960 | 104,138
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1970 | 99,190
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1980 | 100,381
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1990 | 96,771
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Cemeteries
Cemeteries of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States
Research Tips
- Outstanding guide to Northumberland County family history and genealogy resources (FamilySearch Research Wiki). Birth, marriage, and death records, censuses, wills, deeds, county histories, cemeteries, churches, newspapers, libraries, and genealogical societies.
Resources
- source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- source: Family History Library Catalog
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