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- source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- source: Family History Library Catalog
- the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia
Lackawanna County is a U.S. county in the northeastern portion of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 215,896. Its county seat and largest city is Scranton.
The county was created on August 13, 1878, following decades of trying to gain its independence from Luzerne County. (The county's courthouses were organized in October 1878.) Lackawanna was Pennsylvania's last county to be created, and the only county to be created after the American Civil War. It is named for the Lackawanna River.[1]
Lackawanna County is included in the Scranton–Wilkes-Barre–Hazleton, PA Metropolitan Statistical Area ("Wyoming Valley"). It is the second-largest county within the metropolitan area. It lies northwest of the Pocono Mountains. Lackawanna County is located approximately from the New Jersey border in Montague Township, New Jersey, and also located approximately from upstate New York in Kirkwood, New York.
Timeline
Population History
- source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
| Census Year | Population
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| 1880 | 89,269
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| 1890 | 142,088
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| 1900 | 193,831
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| 1910 | 259,570
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| 1920 | 286,311
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| 1930 | 310,397
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| 1940 | 301,243
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| 1950 | 257,396
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| 1960 | 234,531
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| 1970 | 234,107
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| 1980 | 227,908
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| 1990 | 219,039
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Research Tips
External links
- Outstanding guide to Lackawanna 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.
- www.rootsweb.com/~palackaw/
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